Arnet Addis
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“My skies are a study of vast natural transience, showing the immense diversity in cloud formation, colour and texture that can occur over one single skyline."
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“My skies are a study of vast natural transience, showing the immense diversity in cloud formation, colour and texture that can occur over one single skyline.
I am influenced by Impressionism and its depiction of nature, but the immediacy of photography gives my work a more contemporary form. The narrow field of vision and use of light, focus and contrast in the current series of work emulates digital photography and allows me to place absolute emphasis on the sky itself when I feel its ever-changing beauty surpasses that of the stationary world beneath.
In my new 'Lamp-life' works I aim to express the eerie beauty of suburban night scenes lit by the glow of sodium street-lamps. Using coloured chalks and charcoal I capture these apparently ordinary suburban landscapes at the bizarre moment at which nature and artificiality converge, to produce the very distinct atmosphere of a suburban night. I think of these drawings as 'light-portraits' as, although I do not show the direct source of the glow, each image is structured around the semi-visible presence of the lamp itself."
D.O.B. 1985
Education: Currently undertaking B.A. English
Exhibitions:
New British Artists, Anglian Contemporary Art Fair, Braintree 2005
Nottingham University School of Education
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London, 2005
Brighton Artists Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2005
New British Artists, Contemporary Art Fair Edinburgh 2005
Nottingham Castle Exhibition 2005
New British Artists, Art on Paper, Royal College of Art 2006
Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, 2006
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London 2006
New British Artists, Dulwich Art Fair, London, 2006
Applause Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 2007
Chameleon Gallery, Brighton, 2007
Djangoly Art Gallery, Nottingham, 2007
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London 2007
New British Artists, Northern Art Show, Harrogate, 2008
New British Artists, Glasgow Art Fair, 2008
Stark Gallery Summer Exhibition, Canterbury, 2008
New British Artists, Affordable Art Fair, London 2008