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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, following a busy period over the past 18 months where I've been curating an exhibition for the Potteries Museum and Art gallery, a retrospective of three decades of cartooning work by my late father |
| About the Artist | |
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. |
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Plough Lane
2007 |
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| Plough Lane a defunct Football Ground and old home of Wimbledon Football Club. This painting references photographs taken just a few months before the stadium was demolished. The painting of an empty defunct football terrace was inspired by my interest in places, objects and things that have come to the end of their lives, I deliberately left empty holes in the mesh on the grey sections of the stand to emphasise the passing of Plough Lane. |
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The Boat
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| Image from the re:INVENTING exhibition 22nd May – 28th July 2006. A collaboration between ING Wholesale Banking, National Marinetime Museum Greenwich and Wimbledon School of Art. The Exhibition will show artists response to the ING and NMM collections. The Exhibition will be shown at the ING Wholesale Banking, 60 London Wall, London, EC2M 5TQ and later this year at the NMM Greenwich.Exhibition by appointment only (Private View 23 May 2006) tel: 020 7767 6021. |
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Detail - Malcolm Morley poster
2007 |
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Pleasure in Labour
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| I lived opposite this old fruit and veg stall for ten years, It closed down when a big supermarket moved in close by. This picture was taken/painted on its last day of business and is a kind of homage to its being. The title ‘Pleasure in Labour’ came from reading ‘News from nowhere’ William Morris. The words above the painting were made out of the extracted bits of paint from the process. |
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Plough Lane Detail
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Malcolm Morley poster 2002
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| The Malcolm Morley exhibition at The Hayward Gallery showed a documentary with Morley painting outside he had an easel and stool and was busy painting a picture of a tiger, for a moment you believe he maybe in Africa painting from life but as the camera pans out you see he’s actually painting an advertisement of a tiger, displayed on the side of a coach, parked in a safari car park. On leaving the exhibition I picked up an exhibition poster with the intention of creating my own duplication of a duplication of a duplication that would in some way pay homage to the Morley exhibition and the tiger experience. By reproducing a section of this picture I question my relationship to it and it to me, in a way I have claimed the imaged for myself therefore a viewer who is not familiar with the original picture or its context will judge it within the context of my practice. Unintentionally the man in the picture has a slight resemblance to myself, so the painting could easily be mistaken as one of my own holiday snaps. More interesting those who are familiar with the original are likely to dismiss my work as a cheep imitation therefore the value of the art original instantly out values any imitation unless the imitation can in some way become as ‘popular’ as its original. |
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'Butlins 1977'
2007 |
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Express Yourself
2007 |
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| Some of my paintings rely on found imagery, ‘Express Yourself’ was based on part of a large poster I found in a bin outside a local sports shop, the text ‘x-press yourself’ caught my eye as it seemed to perfectly contradict my painting process . If I use found images I always paint them to scale, found images are used directly in the painting process they are used as ready made templates for the painting; this also explains why there painted in reverse. |
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Living room of May un Mar Lady
2008 |
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| This painting is based on my late fathers long running cartoon strips ‘May un Mar Lady’, I have taken small parts of the thousands of cartoons he drew and recreated how the living room of may have looked in my fathers imagination, he never drew whole rooms but must have had a mental layout for how this imaginary world would have looked? The painting is painted to almost life like dimensions and has no characters; the spectator becomes the character/visitor to this empty world. I am in the process of recreating more rooms in the house. The cartoon ran for 20 years in a local ‘Stoke on Trent’ newspaper. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions UK 2007 National Marinetime Museum re:INVENTING 16th Oct-31st Jan 2006 Group Show - re:INVENTING ING London, 22nd May 28th July 2006 'FLAT' 7th July - 12th August Arlington Gallery, Camden 2004 Opening Exhibition of the new WSA gallery, MHR. 2002 Deluxe-Arts "The Jokes on Us" 2002 Cork Street, London Dangerous Corners 2002 Business Design Centre, Islington, London 'Fresh Art' WAS 2002 Open Studios July and November - Wimbledon Art Studios 2001 Business Design Centre, Islington, London 'Fresh Art' WAS 2001 Open Studios July and November - Wimbledon Art Studios 2001 The Start Gallery, Brighton "paint, painter, painting" 2008 Curated Exhibitions - The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery Stoke-on-Trent - 'Three decades of Cartooning by Dave Follows' 17 May to 29 June Work in corporate and private collections include: R. Kaller-Kimche Inc New York The Professional Football Association (PFA) in Manchester D Jones and J Morris Directors of the Business Design Centre Rumi Verjee of Thomas Goode & Co Limited Current Employment 2003 to date University of the Arts London - Digital media, Video and animation technical tutor, Wimbledon College of art and Chelsea College of Art CLIP CETL Fellow for 'Process Arts' University of the Arts London, CCW |
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| Website: www.chrisfollows.com | |
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