Cut-Click

Cut-click exhibition Press Release

Cut Click - Global Exhibition

Celebrating their first anniversary of ‘Cut Click’ an innovative on line magazine for Art and Design, editors Caroline Twidle and Daniel Baker co curate a collaborative Exhibition at Abbey Walk Gallery, of work from 29 national and international artists selected from contributors to their publication .

This interesting and diverse Exhibition gives the viewer a unique opportunity to see a shared dialogue concerning the nature of global, contemporary art and design.  Artists in the Exhibition have backgrounds that range from as far afield as London , Spain , France New York and Brazil .

This is a  varied Exhibition containing a vast selection of works that plunder and echo the cacophony of colour, graphics, materials and sounds that are associated with the artists own culture and background.

The artists in the exhibition include:

Venezuelan artist Luz Valenci who creates pieces of work through painting, drawing and mixed media techniques that recreate dreamlike scenarios with abstract elements that shapes into forms and imaginary landscapes. “In most pieces I include forms of text in circular shapes that start and end at the same point. Repetitive words and intricate messages are placed in the pieces as a way of hiding messages or codes.” All of his ideas originate from a thought process that involves personal experiences, dreams, imagined scenarios and characters that are constantly evolving from shapes and forms of colour. “Growing up in Venezuela has shaped the way I visualize colours through light and shades and it has given me the understanding of the use of primary colours and how they function in South American cultures.” His work focus’s on the importance of colour and its power over identity.

Norwich based, nationally exhibiting artist Jemma Watts centres her work on an abiding interest in structures of power between individuals and within institutions. “I use drawing and etching to tell fragments of stories about total institutions and hierarchies, often including objectified or corrupted bodies. “ Her images leave an uncomfortable tension between the image as pretence of reality and as a contrived series of lines and tone.

London artist Sharon Whyte’s practice has for the past three years focused around her interest in the history of unusual types of performance and involves periods of research, searching archives and integrating theatre, magic and other ephemera directly into the work. “I like to work on paper and use screen-printing, drawing, watercolour, gouache and collage to create images from source material and my own sketchbooks.” Drawing is a vital part of her practice regardless of the medium she may be using to make a body of work.

Spike Dennis creates sculptures often primitive and nostalgic in presentation that respond to his fascination with our relationship with that which we call the natural world “I endeavour to recapture pixelated memories distorted by time and attempt to give physical form to that which pours forth from the point where my imagination and memory collide.”

Other artists include American photographic artist Chris Baddeley, Brazilian artist Denis de Oliveira and Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Hnatenko.

The artists included in the Cut Click Exhibition represent neither a single generation nor location, but there are affinities and links between their chosen methodologies, which range across media to include sculpture, installation, painting, drawing and video.