Jo Berry is an artist based in Cardiff. She graduated in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University, was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2014 and has exhibited around the UK
Jo Berry’s hazy-bright ambiguous paintings, alluding to found portraits or sometimes potentially sinister environments.
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Lindsey’s imagery is widely sourced, from fashion magazines to witchcraft journals. The figures in her paintings are often costumed, and although Lindsey’s work is figurative, the environment her figures reside in is equally important, adding to the air of other-worldliness in the paintings.
The subjects of Lindsey’s paintings are caught in flux, in a moment in time. Perhaps falling or about to fall or sometimes caught in the moment of looking at the viewer. These are figures captured for a split second. This concept of “in the moment” is crucial to Lindsey’s work.
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Gordon’s recent paintings have a quiet melancholy that questions their intentions.
An anxious contradiction is on show, with the work being self-conscious of what it is, its possible failings, yet it revels in a new found simplicity and relationships to landscape painting, finding an intimate beauty in both natural and post-industrial landscape.
Gordon’s work asks the viewer to look longer and harder at what painting is, and why it continues to fascinate.
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Iwan Lewis’ paintings and installations allude to mis-readings and failed languages, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Drawing is a strong feature in Iwan’s paintings, combined with a sympathetic and often beautiful handling of paint. There is also a sense of narrative within Iwan’s work, which is emphasised by the carefully considered titles of the paintings.
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Aishan Yu re-interprets historical documentary photographs through the mediums of drawing and painting. The artist’s drawings are feats of incredible detail and precision, and via this method she seeks to meet the subject and bring about a moment of intimacy, even reciprocity. The act of copying becomes a form of immersion, even as the anonymity and ambiguity of the title is upheld.
www.aishan.co.uk