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Artist Statement:
My recent work looks at what
happens when people come face
to face with the art and
architecture of the past.
Painted in a traditional
style, it allows me to address
contemporary issues about our
personal and collective
relationship not just to the
art of the past, but to the
past itself, the soil from
which we have grown. It raises
questions about the place of
traditional art and
architecture in contemporary
society, through the way that
we react and respond to it,
and the way that art is
presented in museums and
galleries.
This theme also allows me to
playfully blur the
distinctions between art and
reality. My compositions often
create a deliberately
restricted view of the figures
and settings, making them
ambiguous or even
unidentifiable. They can seem
to depict an imaginary realm
in which people, artworks and
architecture become elements
in a dream, the indefinable
mood compounded by an
atmospheric use of light and
colour.
I do not try to put across any
one particular viewpoint in my
paintings; they are presented
in an open-ended way, leaving
viewers to interpret them in
their own fashion. At times
there is an element of irony
or humour; at ...
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Artist Galleries:
Art Exposure Gallery
19 Parnie Street
Glasgow, G1 5RJ
Scotland
Tel: +44 141 552 7779
www.artexposuregallery.co.uk/
Oisin Gallery,
44 Westland Row
Dublin D2 Ireland
Tel: +353 1 661 1315
http://www.oisingallery.com/
Tracey McNee Fine Art,
21 Shepherd Market
Mayfair
London UK
W1J 7PN
Tel: +44...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Earlier this year I completed
a commission for six large
canvases for St. Brides
Church, in Bothwell, Scotland,
which related the lives of
local people to the Baptism of
Christ....
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Exhibitions for Richard Whincop:
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Solo & 2-person shows:
Jul 2011 Useless Fictions, solo show at Alpha Art, Edinburgh
Aug 2010 Joint show with Joe O'Brien at Alpha Art, Edinburgh
Jun 2010 Museum Pieces: solo show, Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow
May 2009 See in See out: Joint show with David Farren, Oisín Gallery, Dublin
Nov 2008 In the Picture, solo show at Artdecaf (Braewell Galleries), Glasgow
Nov 2007 Art and Not-art, solo show, Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
Apr 2006 Debut solo show, Oisín Gallery, Dublin
Selected Art Fairs & other exhibitions:
Nov 2010 Edinburgh Art Fair
June 2008 Cambridgeshire Art Fair, UK
May 2008 Paisley Art Institute annual exhibition (winner of Art de Caf award)
March 2008 The Affordable Art Fair, London, UK
March 2008 Glasgow Art Fair
November 2007 Edinburgh Art Fair
October 2007 Art London Art Fair
April 2007 Glasgow Art Fair
November 2006 Edinburgh Art Fair
June 2006 Aspect Art prize exhibition, Paisley Art Institute
April 2005 Glasgow Art Fair
Forthcoming solo show: Art de Caf, Glasgow
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