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| David Hughes
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'alter the altar' shown at St.Nicholas's church, in Westgate Street, Gloucester; an exhibition throughout JULY 2006 featuring 3-D and relief artwork which was intended to empathise with the space 
detail of buried damp canvas retrieved (after 3 days) from foot of "ALTAR". white marks are residue of wet earth and gravel. |
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'eve' ltd.ed.print paper 24" x 19" nfs |
'pink' sold ink/oil on canvas 40" x 17" |
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 'stone' sold acrylic on board 24" x 18" |
 'lace wood'sold acr/ink on canvas 45" x 17.5" | ||||
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 'puppet' acr/oil on board 85cm x 70cm | ||||
 bronzetrees sold acrylic on board 60" x 31" |
 bronze 2 acrylic on board 33"x 44" | ||||
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“….’for ‘Eve’, my blind ground came from putting 3 of my drawings of 2 models from the life room in a pile, I closed my eyes, took a deep breath then tore the drawings up four or five times. I was happy with the drawings, I was sacrificing my best so it took a lot of faith . A large aspect of my work is about process, and that process involves chance and it’s reflection of life. I switch back and forth from waste materials (rusty panels, old doors), to creating blind grounds usually in paint on canvas or board, although sometimes I’ll work in 3d, sometimes I just use the traditional. More often than not, the most unlikely grounds yield the best results. If I’m really lucky, I get a worthwhile narrative as well. I recycle what doesn’t work and try again, or occasionally if I need to, I regain control with a heavier balance of the traditional. ” |
The buried canvas was allways an object designed to be found.
Originaly created by David in 1985 the painting has a bizarre history, only part of which we relate here.
In 1985 it was first placed by the artist above the urinals of a art school toilet on the eve of an exhibition. Early next morning it was rescued by the exhibition curator and hung from the exhibition ceiling just in time for the opening.
For the next few years it was used as a rug. In 1989
when the artist became homeless, the work was lost. Years later it was rediscovered in an attic and returned to the artist. It was
Exhibited at Blackfriars Priory in 2001 as part of a work called Altar, the
painting was buried at the foot of the three seven foot tall pieces of
rusty metal that formed the main part of the work. Battered and worn, the painting survived for a while as a wall hanging. It was reborn again, to be reinterpreted as
part of an installation work at the GANet "St Nick's" Fabrications exhibition 2006, allthough this time the detritus including palm crosses and confetti protruding from underneath the canvas was the main theme of the work. " Resurrecting the redundant, rescuing, reinterpreting, reinventing and being reborn from lifes rejections and and mostly wrongly presumed and assumed failures is...? " | ||||
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Sabre Art of Gloucester sells contemporary affordable art in diverse styles and media. At our gallery we have drawings,paintings,originals, prints, etchings, abstracts,portraits, landscapes and figurative work.The media range is pastels, watercolours, gouache, oil, acrylic, pencil, ink, charcoal, and mixed media. All of these are used on canvas, paper, card, board, plastic and even metals. This gallery has been listed on www.softdata.co.uk |
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