k r pomeroy
Großbritannien
http://krpomeroy-art.biz
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Acryl
Stil: Abstrakt
Vita / Lebenslauf:
K R Pomeroy
I studied History and Fine Art at Redland College in Bristol from 1968 to 1971. After teaching both these subject for two years I “specialised” in teaching History. I am however, a qualified art teacher and two of the three years at Redland were spent studying and practicing art as a subsidiary subject. Part of my Open University degree course was in Humanities Foundation which included aspects of art history. The course Renaissance and Reformation Studies included substantial study of the development of artistic theory and practice as well as the changing status of the artist. I studied for an MA in Creative Entrepreneurship in 2008 - 9 which had a substantial studio practice element including the option, which was taken, to create a piece of work with 3000-5000 commentary for the dissertation. My artistic education is on-going.
I now have a studio in France and work there as well as in Norwich.
Until late in 2004 I was influenced by the abstract expressionist approach. The tension between chance and control is dynamic. Working with the ideas of chaos and control reflects my own and humanities attempts to make sense of, and bring order to, the vision of existence. I had been working mainly with a rich palette of reds and blues. These colours react in the eye and give movement to the work. I saw echoes of the opposing elements of fire and water in these colours and something of the chaos of the universe being brought into form.
Up-date: Statement for Fringe Festival Oct. 2006. (Written in the third person)
Keith Pomeroy’s career has taken an interesting direction since his determination in 2004 to do whatever he felt like doing. He has restricted his palette and followed a rather minimalist path – quite a departure from his wild and colourful early work. In fact recently Keith has painted only in black. He feels the minimalist work has taken a lot of courage as he doesn’t usually subscribe to the epithet “Less is more”. He was inspired by the adage of Robert Morris:
“Simplicity of form is not necessarily simplicity of experience”.
Keith has had a long term interest in the concepts of chaos and order which informed his earlier work. His awareness of the chaos/order elements in many creation myths have led to a series of paintings that are increasingly minimal and black and explore the notion of “just at the beginning”. His paintings were described in 2006 in a published review:
“Keith Pomeroy is perhaps the most challenging painter in the show - his works are subversive and modernist in essence. Monochrome ……. they are almost punctured from beneath the façade so that the canvas is stretched to its limit. They combine an aesthetic recognition with an uncomfortable suspicion that there is more going on beneath the surface than we are allowed to see.”
Susan Gunn
The black paintings have become a creation myth series. Based on work initially with pupils exploring creation myths it was noticed that common themes are darkness to light and chaos to order ( a basic theme in my work for 10 years). Beyond this I have researched world wide creation myths and am interested in scientific cosmology – the Big Bang, black holes, dark matter – all resonate for me within my work.
The first black, deformed canvas paintings had dilute lines of white paint which were allowed to flow creating random lines which represent light “breaking through”. Those lines were dispensed with and instead panels of textured black were introduced to deformed canvases creating varied tonality - light “breaking through” again. In a later phase of this work circles ( hugely significant as the perfect form in many cultures and imbued with paradoxical elements in Taoist philosophy) were introduced, punched through the canvas (clearly a reference to Fontana) and the raw canvas now represented light “breaking through” and the unification of space behind and in front of the canvas surface.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Solo Exhibitions 2002-2011
2011
"No Commercial Potential"
Stew Gallery, Norwich. 15-19 June
2009
Baskerville House, Birmingham. May-Aug.
2008
Wembley Point, West London. March – June
2007
Fringe Festival, Norwich (Installation)
2006
Castle Mall, Norwich - part of the Norwich Fringe Festival
2005
Hotel Le Sainte Anne, Sigean, France.
2004
Gallery Ecosse D'Oc, St Laurent De La Cabrerisse, France
Galerie Eponyme, Magalas, France
2003
Wildwood Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
Gallery Ecosse D'Oc, St Laurent De La Cabrerisse, France
2002
Regatta Fine Art, Holt, Norfolk
Toucan Gallery, Beccles, Suffolk
Selected mixed exhibitions.
2011
"Twin Visions" Norwich Forum. May.
Koblenz, Germany with Norwich20Group. April.
2010
The Art of Faith: Self, Spirit, Surroundings.
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich. Nov-Dec.
2009
Showcase at Allen & Overy, Bishops Square, London. November.
Open Studios exhibition at the old Bally factory. May.
2008
Nude Nite. Orlando, Florida. USA (Feb)
in-the-beginning, on-line exhibition and work in project room Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts4 June-4 Sept.
New England International Erotic Art Festival, MA.USA. June.
Salthouse 08, Norfolk (July)
2007
Halesworth Gallery - May/June
2006
Seattle International Erotic Art Festival, USA
Bally Shoe Factory with 'Art Now', part of the Norwich Fringe Festival
2005
The Withers Gallery, Itteringham, Norfolk
The Oliver Messel Gallery, Norwich
Norwich Fringe Festival
2004
Wildwood Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The Wall Gallery, Ely, Cambs.
Galerie Eponyme, Magalas, France
2003
Galerie Profils, Coulliere, France
The Wall Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire
2002
Lighthouse Gallery, Norwich
Galerie Catalan, Ceret, France. (en permanence)
Galerie Profils, Coulliere, France
Frames Gallery, Norwich
2001
Vessalio Gallery, Norwich
Toucan Gallery, Beccles.
Frames Gallery, Norwich.
Regatta Fine Art, Holt, Norfolk
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