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Artist Statement for Jonathan Polkest
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My work digresses through techniques, periods, genres and philosophies - a factual reality which I no longer resist. Currently I paint with a strong textiles element as well as persuing a quite separate photographic practice mainly towards installation.
I am indissoluably connected to the Brythonic culture of my origins in Cornwall but studio time in London allows an expansive painting practice which encompasses a wider frame of reference than my identity as an individual in the landscape. I look at objects and the metaphor, the opposite of reason and the value of non archived information. I like to think my work represents a votive aspect in the power of visual language, geometry in ritual and the special characteristic in a ceremonial/sacred object - no matter how humble its origins.
I assert the notion that the value of all art is through amellioration, even though, on this occasion I cannot spell the word correctly, my aim is sincere.
The placing of objects, the creating of new images and the adorning of existing objects fascinate me for reasons that are alchemical, theraputic and ultimately a power of reasoning of an otherwise vicarious world.
I am involved in public arts and community arts, I value the notion and endeavour to develop ideas in this domain but I am wary of permenant art in the public domain, outside the gallery, I am conversely drawn to the Event, the Dialogic, Performance, Virtual and Projected arts.
I am committed to the act of releasing the hidden dynamic in our culture and connecting with truth.
Born and educated in The Isles of Scilly Cornwall
attended Art School in Redruth Cornwall
Scenic Artist and Set Design at Bristol Old Vic, Welsh National Opera, Royal Academy of Art and The I.C.A.
Northbrook Drawing Award at the 2000 BAWC Mall Galleries.
M.A.Fine Art at London University
Visiting tutor at Goldsmiths And Camberwell College
Exibition highlights;
Artists Gallery HUNTERS HILL Sydney Australia
Snowy Mountains, Woolgoolga Civic Centre and Sydney royal showground.
Trellissick Garden Gallery Feock, Cornwall
CSM Gallery Pool Redruth Cornwall
Hevelepter, Chapel Street, Penzance
Hevelepter, Mariners Gallery, St Ives
Newlyn Art Gallery
Truro Royal Cornwall Museum
Penlee House Gallery
South London Gallery
mOONBOW jAKES gALLERY lONDON
Infracity Gallery Uplands Vaseby, Stockholm, Sweden
Galleria Owens ,Lugano, Switzerland
Bird 2005, Beigjing, China
Bath Fringe Festival- The Dead Inventive.
Brighton Drive In Gallery
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