Chris Follows Artist London UK 2008
I was born in the West Midlands UK and studied Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Art, chrisfollows.com has a selections of past and current work primarily paintings and video. My work has a manufactured yet unique appearance, public and private boundaries are explored and repetition and restraint are a fundamental part of my practice. I'm currently developing a new body of work. |
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Living room of May un Mar Lady - Year: 2008, |
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Flat Exhibition - Article by Alison Oldham - Published in the H&H Series arts and Features July 28 2006 London. What does the phrase “International domesticity’ convey to you? Spouses living in different countries? Multicultural furnishings? A transatlantic league of housewives? The words come from Chris Follows',s statement accompanying his video work, 71 Ranelagh Road, in FLAT, tile first exhibition in Camden Town's newest art space, the Arlington Gallery. After explaining how he captured "home" video footage from the internet between June 22 and 30 this year, Follows says: "The found footage has been reworked into a new narrative that leads, the viewer through a uncanny maze of international domesticity," The resulting four-minute DVD, in which empty dining rooms, washing-up, open-lidded toilets and beds strewn with clothes hove shakily in and out of view, would be a good deal less intriguing without the nagging need to give a meaning to "international domesticity'. In creating this unease, Follows seems in tune with curator Anna Lewis's agenda for... |
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| cont....FLAT. She invited seven artist to' respond to the residential nature of the upper part of the gallery' premises -'the flat above the former Regent.s book shop in Parkway. Full review: Download PDF 2.4MB Chris Follows - 71 Ranelagh Rd - eVideo 2006 'Flat' exhibition 2006 SEE VIDEOS | ||
| .... following a busy period over the past 18 months where I've been curating a retrospective exhibition of three decades of cartooning work by my late father... | ||
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery Stoke-on-Trent - 'Three decades of Cartooning by Dave Follows' 17 May to 29 June 2008 See more about the past 18 months where I've been curating an exhibition for the Potteries Museum and Art gallery (see more at davefollows.com) EXHIBITION PRESS |
Exhibitions - UK Group shows past and present...... |
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Painting: a unique style of painting ..... |
Painting: developed a unique style of painting produced with the repetitive application and removal of acrylic paint onto aluminium mesh. I'm in some way removed from the gestural act of painting, I only view the results of my labour once the paint is dry and the painting is turned over. The imagery resonates a sense of loss and irreplaceable time. | The Boat’ Acrylic paint and perforated mesh 86cm x 80cm 2006 |
 View the full portfolio of paintings by Chris Follows. |
Last Exhibition of my work: re:INVENTING |
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Work in corporate and private collections: |
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Installation: Old and new....... |
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Video Internet: exploring the Internet as a |
Installation: work includes found, discarded or forgotten objects, collected and stored and reworked and resurrected into new memories and contexts. More. |
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| Community Arts Commissions and Residencies: Arts Council commissioned residency......... | ||
| Arts Council commissioned residency in Golborne W10, www.golborne.org a visual record of time spent in the Golborne area (2003/4). The Arts Cruise’, digital/film collaboration between worked with 12 young people from St Augustine's school, Westminster exploring developments at the Paddington basin (2004). A year long residency at AIT, a software developer based in Henley, also assisted artist Richard Layzell on a major public art project in the centre of Maidenhead (2001). More.. |  |
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