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Artist Information:
Terry Setch
Penarth,
United Kingdom
Member Since: Mar 2001
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Artist Statement:
Paul Moorhouse in an essay
about the work of Terry Setch
says -

Setch's art has developed as a
means of expressing his
relationship with the beach
and his experience of it, in
particular the processes of
metamorphosis which are
evident in the landscape. Such
changes may be sudden and
transient. For example, when
rain or mist dissolve the
view. Other transformations in
the landscape are more
gradual: the result of opposed
elements in a continuous state
of exchange. The beach is a
place where land and sea come
together. Its appearance
records the perpetual dialogue
between earth and water. The
sea erodes the headland which
spills its shattered masses
onto the beach. These mingle
with man-made rubbish washed
up by the tide. All kinds of
objects are visible: tangles
of fishing line; plastic
bottles and bags; bits of
furniture, clothing and
carpet; fragments of
push-chairs and cookers; even
rusting car bodies which have
been pushed over the edge of
the headland. As a result of
weathering these synthetic
intrusions in the landscape
undergo an imperceptible but
inevitable process of
transmutation. Simultaneously
sand, rocks and detritus are
bonded together and fixed,
repeatedly buried and
unearthed, or constantly
shifted ...

Further Information
Artist Exhibitions:
The painting, Once upon a time
there was OIL III, in the
collection of the Tate
Gallery, London, UK will be on
show throughout April 2003 at
the Tate Britain, Millbank,
London, UK in the exhibition
Broken Ground.

solo exhibitions
2001/2002
Terry Setch Retrospective
touring exhibition:,
Royal West of ...

Further Information
Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
Collections:
UK Collections

The Tate Gallery, London
National Museum and Galleries
of Wales
Victoria and Albert Museum,
London
Welsh Arts Council
British Council, London
Glynn Vivian Museum &Art
Gallery, Swansea
Arts Council of Great Britain
Contemporary Arts Society of
Wales
Wakefield City Art Gallery
Coleg Harlech
Contemporary Arts Society,
London
Northampton ...

Further Information
Commissions:
Coming Soon!

Reviews for Terry Setch:



Major UK Reviews since 1990

2002 The Guide, The Guardian, Exhibitions, Terry Setch Retrospective
2001 Sunday Telegraph, by John McEwen
2001 South Wales Echo Weekender, 24 Mar, The Beach Comber,
2001 Galleries, March, Terry Setch by Paul Gough
2001 Modern Painters, Spring, Terry Setch by Hugh Adams
2000 Daily Telegraph, July 15, 'And the revolution's still not here', Mark Hudson
1999 Artnet internet magazine New York, www4.artnet.com, 'Contemporary British Landscape', Louise Merlyn
1995 Art Review, Artist’s Diary, May
1993 The Scotsman, 15 February, Portrait of Pollution by Artist in Touch with Earth and Sea, Murdo McDonald
1993 Arts Review, January, Pick of the Year; Best Exhibition, John McEwen
1992 The Sunday Telegraph, 27 December, ‘Huff Puff and the Weather’ John McEwen
1992 Burlington Magazine, December, London; Recent Exhibitions of British Figurative Paintings, David Cohen
1992 Wastes Management, September, A Changing Beachscape by Terry Setch,
1992 Voyager, September- October, The Fine Art of Making Profits, Cheryl Taylor
1992 Time Out, June, The Man, the Form and the Spirit, David Lillington
1992 The Royal Academy Magazine no 35, Summer, Preview Andrew Lambirth,
1992 The Sunday Telegraph, 28 June, Tide Markings, John McEwen
1992 The Guardian, 4 June, The Packaging of the Polymath, Tim Hilton,
1992 Arts Review Vol. XLIV, Clair Rendell
1990 Arts Review, October, London Reviews, Mary Rose Beaumont


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