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Artist Statement -




STATEMENT

My paintings record my interest in reconciling different and often estranged qualities and ideas in painting. I work through an experimental evaluation of the co-influence or confluence of organic and geometric, texture and structure, density and transparency, the sensuous history of paint and the austere tradition of minimalism.

Within the context of abstraction, namely geometric and organic, I begin with the fundamental balance in painting between line and colour. I have drawn on ancient symbolic shapes from my Scottish background and I am influenced by the symbolic power of simplest forms of drawn lines such as the circles, concentric circles and spirals of Pictish and Celtic Art. Linear elements in my work derive from this source as well as from African and Aboriginal Art, Abyssinian Warrior Shields and Russian icons, and other lines and shapes that retain, in the broadest sense, some significance within culture. For colour I begin from observation of geological form and the substance of land; of dust, sand, mud and rock as well as the outcrop of local street furniture/ architecture; weather and the effects of weathering, and then of the often extreme and exotic colour of lichen, peat and mosses.

My work exploits all the painterly techniques that have been used throughout Western Tradition and over the years I have built on that knowledge with extensive experimentation using a wide variety of media. Recent works use wax with all kinds of paint to create surfaces, which are intensely worked with drawn lines and a range of brushed applications that build a layered body of paint of variable density and transparency. Structure and colour are modified, inflected or deflected by developing textures, which alter intent and meaning. I’m intensely aware of the process in which the painting acquires its identity and presence. When this dialogue of authorship and authority resolves the tensions of surface and depth, qualities and ideas, I get close to the synthesis I aim for when an idea becomes an object that declares itself in the purest language of painting.

William Dick

Artist Exhibitions



ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2017
Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Glasgow, UK
DOUBLE VISION with Rebecca Dick

2016
Haunt Gallery, London, UK

2007
Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts, Poole, UK
Billingham Art Gallery, Billingham, UK

2006
St. Jakobikirche, Stralsund, Germany

2005
St. Jurgen Starkow, Mecklenburg, Vorpommem, Germany

2003
Sutton House, London, UK

2002
Pilgrim Gallery, London, UK

2001
UNESCO Gallery, Amman, Jordan
The British Council, Amman, Jordan
St. Mary Woolnoth Church, City of London, UK

1997
Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland

1996
Tricycle Gallery, London, UK
The Economist, London, UK
Monaghan Museum Gallery, Ireland
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland

1994
Meffan Gallery, Forfar, UK

1991
Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews, UK
Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK

1990
New Gallery, Bemis Foundation, Omaha, U.S.A.
Zodiac Gallery, Omaha, U.S.A.
Lanchester Gallery, Coventry, UK
Nogradi Torteneti Muzeum, Salgotarjan, Hungary
Pier Gallery, Stromness, Orkney, UK
Artspace Gallery, Aberdeen, UK

1989
Seagate Gallery, Dundee, UK
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Mark Four Gallery, Lincoln, U.S.A.

1988
University of Exeter, Exeter. UK
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Southampton Arts Centre, Southampton, UK
The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Crescent Arts Workshop, Scarborough, UK

1987
Artworks Space, London, UK
Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1974
Dundee Young Painters, Dundee City Art Gallery

1975
Painters in Dundee, Roseangle Gallery, Dundee
Pernod Exhibition, Royal High School Edinburgh

197577
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

1976
Winsor Newton Exhibition, Royal High School, Edinburgh
Winsor Newton Finalists Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London

1977
Group Exhibition, Compass Gallery, Glasgow

1977-78
Scottish Print Open, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Dudhope Arts Centre, Dundee,
Inverness Art Gallery, Spectro Gallery, Newcastle,
Glasgow Print Studio, Crawford Art Centre, University of St. Andrews

1978
Scottish Arts Council Purchases, Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh

1981
Modern British Prints, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool

1982
Paperworks, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth,
The London Group, Camden Arts Centre, London, Penwith Gallery, St. Ives,
Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex,

1983
Scottish Print Open III, Scottish Arts Council Travelling

1984-85
T.S.W.A. National Exhibition, Newlyn and Penwith Galleries, Cornwall, Plymouth City Art Gallery, Arnofini Gallery, Bristol,
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff,
Mostyn Art, Gallery, Llandudno, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow,
Bede Gallery, Jarrow, Camden Arts Centre, London

1986
British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford

1987
Group Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London
Open Exhibition, Oriel Y Ddraig Gallery, Blaenau Ffestiniog,
Hazardous Vessels - William Dick, Adrian Frost and Diane Marston, Chisenhale Gallery, London
International Exhibition, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1988
International Drawing Triennale, Wroclaw, Poland
Inverclyde Biennial, McLean Museum and Art Gallery,Greenock
Espana 88, Malaga, Spain

1989
Bemis Foundation Artists, New Gallery, Omaha, U.S.A.
International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
Varna International Print Biennale, Bulgaria

1990
Intersymposium Exhibition, Salgotarjan, Hungary

1991
Male Formy Grafiki, Lodz, Poland
Collectors Eye, Gruzelier Modern and Contemporary Art, London
Summer Exhibition, New Gallery, Omaha, U.S.A.
Works on Paper, Gruzelier Modern and Contemporary Art, London
Gruzelier Contemporary Art, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

1992
Corporate Locations, First Data Resources, Omaha, U.S.A.
Art For Sale, London
National Exhibition of Prints, Ujpest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1993
Kiev-East European, Kiev, Vilinius, St. Petersburg, Russia
International Graphic Biennial, Maastricht,Netherlands
Bradford Open Print Exhibition, Cartwright Hall, Bradford

1994
International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland
Small Graphic Forms, Ujpest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
International Exhibition,Tarii Crisurilor Museum, Oradea,Romania
Cuprum VI Biennale, Centrum Miedziorytu, Lublin, Poland

1997
Three Painters, Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart, Germany
Weihnachtsausstellungen, Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart, Germany

1998
Resonant Colours, Coningsby Gallery, London
Art at Vitalis, London
Whitechapel Open Studios, London

2000
Reflections, Southside Arts, Southampton
Camden Open, Camden Lock, London

2001
Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax

2002
Woolff Gallery, London

2003
Pilgrim Gallery, London
Space Open Studios, london
William Dick Janet Patterson, Pilgrim Gallery, London

2004
Triangle Open Studios, New York, U.S.A.

2005
Summer Salon, Gallery V, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.

200520072008
XIII XIV XV. Szegedi Muvesztelep, Bartok Bela Muvelodesi Kozpont, Szeged, Hungary

2009
XV. Szegedi Muvesztelep, Reok Palota, Szeged, Hungary
100 x 100, Parkers Box, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A

2010
Bemis Center, Omaha, U.S.A.
XVI. Szegedi Muvesztelep, Reok Palace, Szeged, Hungary

2011
Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, California, U.S.A.
Elysian Project Gallery, London, UK
XVII. Szegedi Muvesztelep, Reok Palace, Szeged, Hungary

2013
XIX. Szegedi Muvesztelep, Megnyitja Muveszettortenesz, Szeged, Hungary

2015
Abstracted, Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, UK
XXI. Szegedi Muvesztelep, Reok Palace, Szeged, Hungary

2016
John Moores Painting Prize 2016, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

2017
Hidden Gems, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK
Time + Space Beginnings, Bemis Center, Omaha, U.S.A....

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Artist Collections




Aberdeen Art Gallery,Aberdeen, Scotland
Barclays Bank PLC, United Kingdom
The Bemis Foundation, Omaha, U.S.A.
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Darat al Funun Gallery, Amman, Jordan
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Collection, Dundee, Scotland
Dundee Art Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
The Foundation for Hungarian Graphics Arts, Budapest, Hungary
The Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Scotland
Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Nogradi Torteneti Muzeum, Salgotarjan, Hungary
The Scottish Arts Council
University of Dundee,Art Collection,Dundee, Scotland
University of Nebraska, Omaha, U.S.A.
University of Stirling, Art Collection, Stirling, Scotland
Private Collections- United Kingdom, U.S.A., Canada, Holland, Germany, Hungary,
Poland and Russia...

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