luke austin-heywood
http://www.lukeaustin-heywood.co.uk
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Acryl
Stil: Moderne
Vita / Lebenslauf:
About the Paintings
This set of paintings has been developed from some of the following influences: modern music, drum n'bass, hip hop, trance, techno etc; graffiti, Japanese art and culture, modern and past, contemporary art in general and classical modernism.
Some of the works seek to create images that work as visual equivalents to music. The painter Jack Smith has said when talking about his own paintings that he is happiest when his paintings resemble a diagram. He talks of the diagram as being an equivalent to music amongst other things, for example he has done paintings which are the abstracted diagrams of day to day activities and this has influenced me. As well as the diagrammatic I am also involved in the romanticism of painting stemming back to Kandinsky, who also sought to make visual equivalents to music, he talked of musical notes having their representation visually as certain colours: synesthesia, the concept of hearing colours and seeing sounds.
Kandinsky's abstraction is where transcendentalism has it's roots: this has made itself apparent in my works through a strong aesthetic abstraction exploring harmonies against chaotic forms which have roots in natural forms.
Often the structure of the forms uses the idea of creating synesthetic diagrams fusing the traditional and natural with technological futuristic themes. Structurally the works balance between the all-over modernist Jackson Pollock shallow space and a figure field format, these fuse together as well as visually twisting, jumping from one format to another.
The spiritualism implied through transcendentalist paintings is fused with a strong Japanese style, which leads to a kind of zen aesthetic. This aesthetic balances between an influence of the traditional e.g. Hokassai, etc and a more modern vision stemming from Manga and other such anime.
Further from the spiritual aspect is a contemporary influence, a cooler construction of
sterile conceptual awareness, where the paintings contradict their leanings towards romanticism in a newer pop romanticism, or fragmentation. Here the works are nihilist/zen/fluoro-mystical and the affected nature of their conceptual positioning is sought after, as are the skills of design and craft within the works. Affected becomes a desired strain derived through the practice of style, particularly Japanesism.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Luke Austin-Heywood
email:alukeaustin@aol.com web:www.lukeaustin-heywood.co.uk
Education:
BTEC in General Art and Design 1992-94 - Falmouth College of Art
BA (HONS) in Fine Art 1994-97 - University of Plymouth Exeter site
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA in Fine Art. Completed 04 - Falmouth College of Art
ART THERAPY FOUNDATION oct 07 till may 08 - Truro College
Exhibitions:
Degree Show - University of Plymouth, Exeter site. Earl Richards rd North.1997
Solo show - South Gate Arch, Launceston, Cornwall. 1998
Group Show - Exeter Maritime Museum, Gwynngala Group.1999
Group Show - Various Exhibitions, South Gate Arch, Gwynngala Group 1999-2003
Group Show - Falmouth Arts Centre, Cornwall. 2000
Group Show - Tavistock Arts Centre, Devon. 2003
Joint Show - Camelford Gallery, Cornwall.2003
Mixed Show - Camelford Gallery, Cornwall, selection of works on show. 2003-2004
Group Show - Stuart House Gallery, Liskeard, Cornwall.2004
Group Show - Rock Institute, Cornwall, Gwynngala Group.2004
Group Show - Maritime Gallery, StIves, Gwynngala Group.2005
Group Show - Camelford Gallery, Cornwall.2005
Group Show - Camelford and Rock, Cornwall.2006
Group Show - Camelford and Rock, Cornwall.2007
Group Show - Stuart House Gallery, Liskeard, Cornwall, Gwyn- galla Group.2007
Solo show - Dodo gallery,35 new bridge st, Exeter, Devon. Nov 2007
Solo show - Here and Now…. gallery , opening show, 41a killigrew st, Falmouth,Cornwall . TR103PW March 2008
Group Show – Gwynngalla Group,Camelford Museum,Cornwall.March 2008
Joint Show – with Lucy Apple At The Poly , Falmouth Artcentre. June 08
Art fair Jubillee Wharf. Sept 2008
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