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Richard Batty
 
 
About the Artist

My work is a funky, surreal aggregated information overload. Amidst the myriad of details, odd moments and confronting images are subtle elements of mystery, basic values and hope. It’s a decorated mess. I attempt to draw the viewer into a world of Globalization and chaos, then I spike them with a cold reality.

I have recently developed a style of painting that is full of mass subject matter but appears quite ambient from afar. The chequered two dimensional appearance allows me to manipulate the meaning of the picture up close while maintaining a wallpaper quality that isn’t to overbearing. This style is an attempt to phase awkward and beautiful subject matters into one another. The pictures become places where potential conflicts meet and merge.

Influenced by 'Fantastic Art' and steeped in the philosophy of Hieronymus Bosch, whose works 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' or the macabre devils, freaks and monsters form the essence of Richard Batty's 'Urban Architecture' the result of a lengthy research project on Social Geography, exploring the relationship between architecture, space, drugs and sex.

Batty's chaotic, Boschian, compositions are produced in a range of different styles, offering multiple potentialities. Likened to “Where’s Wally” illustrations, many of his paintings are packed like jam jars with imagery, though Wally himself never makes an appearance. Influences are hugely diverse, ranging from an interest in the texturality of Rauschenberg’s Combines and Max Ernst’s Frottage to a passion for figurative work and naïve brush technique reminiscent of Munch’s Expressionism.

 
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Life Is A Short Eternity

2009
Oil on canvas
68x54cm

Life Is A Short Eternity

Electro Funk Lovers

2009
Oil on linen

Electro Funk Lovers
Myspace friends are depicted as Mushrooms. You flick one and the spawns fall off resulting in Many more.

Under Wall

2009

Under Wall

Jackson History

Jackson History
The result of a trip to the Middle East and Michael Jackson's death.

Lord, This Is Not The End, Its Just The Beginning

Lord, This Is Not The End, Its Just The Beginning

Empire Under The Sun

2009

Empire Under The Sun
"The people of Gaza are depressed, and depressed people turn to myth and fantasy, meaning religion and drugs" Jawdat Khoudary. Travelled across Israel, Palestine and Egypt, May 12th - June 01 2009. took specific photos to make collages of this complex and wonderful part of the world. Pattern drawings and sketches were made (and given away) and used in the the final works, large odd and intriguing prints that are collaged and painted into. The work is a purely decorative coming together of landscapes and images. The goal is simply subtle beautiful and Informative works.

Born Free

Born Free

travel colours June 8, 2009 · Travel has many many different advantages ,also expressing the feeling generated but travel experience is different and travellers have many ways of expressing it as some write some take a photo others make a drawing or painting some even write or compose songs and plays . And as i have been working in a hostel for almost 5 years now i had seen all kinds of art work done . i though it such a loss that some of the extravaganza work done by travellers in a moment of sudden art generated by travel feelings is not shared between travellers and that the maximum reached is actually some travel blogs that people might not have have a direct felling to it!!! And as i run a hostel full of travellers i thought why not use the walls of the hostel to show some of this great work done by travellers to other travellers • Well i am on the beginning of my project travel- Colours which i have been thinking about for almost six month and almost ten days away from realizing the first step of it . and i hope that it will be soon a work to be copied and spreed to other hostels in Egypt and other countries……

Blue Sky Over Pacman

2009
Oil

Blue Sky Over Pacman
The big blue sky makes the mess beneath look small and irrelevant. The red pacman shape represents 15% and 85% of the water shared bettween Israel and Palestine.

Mellow Mana Tree

Mellow Mana Tree

'Space Tout - He Came From Nowhere' writing by Steve Picard

2009
Oil on canvas
100x75cm

'Space Tout - He Came From Nowhere' writing by Steve Picard
"SPACE TOUT - HE CAME FROM NOWHERE!!" Intergalactic Goonbeams versus Outer Control City was always going to be a Game to stir the Plutonium that is lodged precariously within the cellular walls of One's Cosmic Distortion Field, and this meeting of these Worldly Wonders was proving to be no exception! Zorro Zephyr had put City ahead within three Light Years with a perfectly- executed weightless lob, which rose to a level of 805,007,254 metres, before dropping graciously beyond the Goonbeams' gaping Defence and into the bottom corner of the Timewarp Shaft! But, within the Orbiting of an average-sized Planet, Goonbeams' midfield schemer Wrench Vox Axiom rocketed a Beamer past Fluke Stywalker, from all of 15,736 yards, to neutralise the position! City won 33-2! May the False be with you!!

The Trip From London to Paddington

1999 - 2010
Oil on mount board
6m x 75cm

The Trip From London to Paddington

Spinach

2009
Oil on canvas
100x75cm

Spinach

This painting is not finished

Electric Gaia

2009
Oil on canvas
104x192cm

Electric Gaia

Morphogenesis

2009
Oil on canvas
192x104cm

Morphogenesis
Rooted in pink trash, this tree looks like it might fall over.
 
Education and biography
Richard Batty 1981

- 3 Years BA Fine Art, July 2005
- 1 Year Graphic Design

Bristol University of West England
Bower Ashton Campus
Kennel Lodge Road
Bristol BS3 2JT

- G.N.V.Q advanced Art and Design, June 2000

Cirencester College
Fosse Way Campus
Stroud Road
Cirancester GL7 1XA

Solo Shows-

- Funky Aggregated Information Overload, Lauderdale House, Highgate, London, Oct 09
- Ambient Chaos, Crouch Hill Station House, London, Jun 2007

Art Fairs-

- Puerto Rico Art Fair, Oct 2008
- Hertfordshire Art Fair, Westmill farm Ware, May 2007
- Islington Art And Design Fair, Candid Arts Trust London, 2007,06,05

Exhibitions with HF Contemporary Art-

- All I Want For Christmas Is, Truman Brewery, London, Nov 09
- Michael Jackson Exhibition/Concert, Dray Walk Gallery, Truman Brewery, London, July 09
- Techno Photography, Lauderdale House, Highgate, London, May 2009
- 'Music In Space - Images In Time' Lauderdale House, Highgate, London, July 08
- Nominated For The Sovereign European Art Prize 2008
- Tranquility in art, An exhibition and fund raising event for the Isabel hospice, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, May 2008.
- Graz, Open House Winter Exhibition, Apr 2008
- Vienna Exhibition, Apr 2008
- Angel Art Market, Candid Arts Trust , Angel Islington, London, Apr 2008
- North Mymms Youth and Community Centre, Mar 2008
- Innsbruck Art Fair, Austria, Feb 2008
- Open House, Winter Exhibition in Graz, Austria, Jan 2008
- Open House, North Mymms, Welham Green, Dec 2007
- For The Harmony And Tranquility Of Mankind, European Commission, Storey's Gate London, Nov 2007
- Viva Italia, Olympia London, Oct 2007
- Soft Equilibrium, Candid arts trust, Angel Islington London, Sep 2007
- Summer Exhibition, Graz Austria, Aug 2007
- European commission, Storey's gate London, 2007

- Untitled gallery, 9 Adams street, Covent garden London, mar 2007
- Cass business school, City of London, 2007
- Cass business school, City of London, 2006
- Trevor the trickle down tradesman, comic strip, 2006
- Net work A.D, Candid arts trust, Angel Islington London, Feb 2007, 06, 05
- Union, Ulu, London WC1, Feb 2006
- Union, Clock Work, Angel Islington, Nov 2005
- Degree show, Bristol University of West England, 2005
- The Armageddon Volcano, Short Film, 2004
- Sounds Beyond Sight, Short Film, 2004
- Junk yard garden project, Bristol, 2004
- Black cube UV gallery, Malcom X center, Bristol, 2005
- Black cube UV gallery, Tobacco factory, Bristol, 2004, 03


 
Future shows
Richard Batty presents his third solo show:
'Over The Wall And Down The Sunny Tunnel'

21 - 28 May 2010
Private view 21st, 6.30 - 9pm
Islington Arts Factory
2 Parkhurst Road, London N7 OSF

Contact: richbatty@hotmail.co.uk
07880 731 915

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HF Contemporary Art presenting -
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gallery artists -

Richard Batty, Glory Charles, Nicholas Socrates and Paul Marks -

Friday and Saturday 12/13 March 2010 at truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL.

 
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