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Artist Statement:
English painter with the
english landscape tradition,
Turner, the Camden School and
the influence of Rothko in his
wake, Wayne Sleeth is
installed since 2001 in France
with a cross-channel
reputation for his work.
His approach is coloured by
the open spaces and
horizontality particular to
both sides of 'La Manche', of
maternal Flanders and paternal
Lincolnshire. In the artist's
own words, these works are
'scapes', neither particularly
landscapes not seascapes, nor
marines, but anagrams of
'spaces'. There is almost a
formal dimension to Sleeth's
dealings with what he calls
'synaesthetics of place',
particularly in his
predilection for square
formats, but only the titles
(ocassionally) create
allusions to a specific
location.
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Artist Exhibitions:
2010 * Créanto, Créhange
(Faulquemont) (F)
Newcastle-Gateshead Art Fair
(GB), represented by Gate
Gallery
* 'Terra Incognita',
O Petit Bobourg, Metz (F)
Insight 2010:
Gate Group show, Muriel Barker
Gallery,
Heritage Centre,
Grimsby (GB)
Voyages, Rivages
: de la Seille à la Mer du
Nord".Salle
St.Jean,
Château-Salins (...
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Artist Galleries:
Artist's website :
www.waynesleeth.com
French representative :
TOAST Gallery, Rue de
l'Estrapade, 75005 Paris
www.toastgallery.com
English represenative :
The GATE GALLERY, Brighowgate,
Grimsby
www.gategallery.co.uk
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
1986 Honorary Consul of
Iceland (England)
1991 Deutsche Massiv ImmoBau
(Germany)
2001 Mairie de Lunéville
(France)
2003 Mairie de Morhange
(France)
2004 Association Carrefour,
Metz (France)
2004 The Library of
Congress, Washington DC
(USA)...
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Commissions:
Mural Commissions
1996 Walkway
Mural for Observatory,
Cleethorpes
Discovery
Centre
1997 Display
and aquarium panels for above
1996 -1999 Murals in
primary and secondary schools
in York,
for City
of York Council Education &
Arts Service
1997- 1999 Mural and
paint decoration of nightclubs
nationally
for InArDec Ltd.
2000 Winterton
Millenium ...
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Wayne Sleeth Biography:
| Biographical information for Wayne Sleeth can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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44
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Other
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Rothko - Soulages - Tapiès - de Stael -
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| Favorite Work of Art |
too many to mention
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
see below... |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
" These are neither (land)scapes nor (sea)scapes, but ‘scapes’; anagrams of certain ‘spaces’."
In his mature work since moving to the Lorraine region of France in 2001, Wayne Sleeth reiterates and re-explores the source and schema of his more formative sensations; the big skies above the flat lands of both the Lincolnshire coast of his father and the polders of maternal Flanders, where he also spent his childhood. The Lorraine region for this confirmed European is not only geographically strategic, but offers an echo of that very play of horizontality and verticality where the artist draws freely on “l’espace” as he knows and feels it, as far as the canvas edge…
"They are neither about land nor sea nor skies, but those spaces colour, line and texture inhabit, make their own, or escape. "
Né au bord de la mer du Nord en Angleterre de parents anglo-flamands, Wayne Sleeth commença les cours de dessin et de peinture à l’Ecole des Beaux Arts Grimsby à 18 ans, encouragé au collège déjà par quelques-uns de ses professeurs. Après un séjour de deux ans dans divers pays d’Europe (France, Allemagne, Croatie…) il est retourné dans le sud de l’Angleterre afin de terminer ses études supérieures, à l’Académie de Bath en 1994, une des plus prestigieuses des écoles hors de Londres (artistes et enseignants tels Colin Crumplin, Howard Hodgkin, Maria Lalic, Alex Landrum, Bob Fearns...)
Devenu ensuite professionnel en 1996 en sortant de l’école de Hull, il prend un atelier à York, et se distingue comme peintre de fresques.De plus, il monte régulièrement des expositions sur la scène nationale, dernièrement au 20:21 Visual arts Centre, Scunthorpe, en 2008 avec le soutien du Arts Council of England. Résidant depuis 2001 dans le Nord-Est de la France, il exposa en permanence dans la galerie Parisienne (Toast Gallery) de 2005 à 2009, et depuis, à Nancy avec la Galerie Rose Pompadour, et en Angleterre avec Gate Gallery , la dernière lui exposant à grand succès à Battersea Art Fair (AAF Londres) en mars 2009 et 2010.
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