Arundel gallery reveal graduates' skills
ARUNDEL'S Zimmer Stewart Gallery kicks off the New Year with an exhibition showing the work of two recent Brighton University fine art graduates, Betsy Dadd and Maxwell Wade (March 6 to 27).
James Stewart, who runs the gallery said: "Their work is quite different in that Betsy Dadd produces small oil paintings on board, monoprints drawings and animations whereas Max Wade's output include larger oil paintings on canvas and woodcut prints.
"But both artists complements each other in terms of subject matter (ethereal figures and loosely-painted landscapes) and colour palette (warm colours - reds and blues).
"I think this will be one of the most exciting shows we have planned for 2010, since the work is very current and includes animation to be shown for the first time in the gallery."
Betsy Dadd recently graduated in fine art printmaking at Brighton University. Her works include paintings, monoprints and drawings. Her output also includes animation – or 'moving drawings' - one of which was used as a music video.
Betsy won the Nagoya University of Art 2008 1st Prize Award as well as the audience-voted Peoples' Prize for her degree show in which she exhibited 8000 Drawings, an animated film piece.
She has contributed to a number of screenings and exhibitions in Japan as well as here in England since graduation. She has also been working on an animation in response to a Glyndebourne production of the Gabriel Marquez' magical realist novel Love And Other Demons.
Born 1985 in London, Max Wade moved to Somerset aged six, going on to study on the art foundation at City of Bath College in 2003 gaining a distinction before moving to Brighton in 2004 to begin a fine art degree in Painting. He moved to London in 2007 and has been working in a studio in Dalston since.
Max said: "I use my drawings and prints as starting points for my paintings, places I've been and conversations emerge on the canvas alongside a combination of memories and dreams, transitory events, everyday occurrences and connections from years ago to yesterday are plucked from the subconscious and butted together on the canvas."
Max draws, paints and scratches on the surface of a canvas, building up layers and a physical history on the surface, he explains.
"The mood, tone and narrative of the pieces are born from the physical act of painting", says Max who likes toplay with colour planes and patterns, layering, moving and smearing the hues.
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