Chuck Elliott / 12
Sometime towards the end of 2019, I started working on a new book, broadly designed to catalogue some of my favourite images from the past 12 years. Beautifully printed by Ripe Digital in Corsham, the book features 100 large format pages, with accompanying short texts that I hope illuminate the project succinctly, and with a little humour.
Chuck Elliott / 12
Sometime towards the end of last year I started working on a new book, broadly designed to catalogue some of my favourite images from the past 12 years. Beautifully printed by Ripe Digital in Corsham, the book features 100 large format pages, with accompanying short texts that I hope illuminate the project succinctly, and with a little humour.
Coombe Gallery, Winter Show
Thought I’d post this shot from Mark Riley’s always fabulous Coombe Gallery in Dartmouth. They’re featuring my Cal R piece in the window as part of their Winter group show…
Saatchi Art / New Year 2020
Delighted to be included in Saatchi Art’s latest curated selection, by chief curator and VP Rebecca Wilson. If you’d like to view the work, it’s online here…
Moniker Art Fair / Opening night
Thrilled to be included at this year's Moniker Art Fair once again, courtesy of Cardiff's leading edge Blackwater Gallery, owned and curated by Jamie Aherne. Amongst a large selection of works on show is this newly framed Motorik / TWO / chromatic shift piece, available from the gallery, or online.
interStella / QUAD
intersStella is a new series of sixteen drawings, arranged into four quads, with four works in each quad. These new works on paper comprise Venn like geometries based on circadian rhythms, bought to life with a series of sixteen colour variants, which I hope speak to the idea of the four seasons, plant life, and perhaps tulips in particular. They clearly also riff on the work of Frank Stella, a true hero of colour abstraction
Hive #1 / EPC / duality : singularity
I’ve been working on a new series of drawings called Hive. It’s currently unclear exactly how these studies are going to ultimately manifest themselves, but I suspect it’ll be as a series of large format panels, possibly in sequence. For the moment however, I thought I’d print a single, smaller component of the series as a new piece for my Experimental Print Club. I’ve been thinking about the nature and problem of working in a rapidly climate changing world, and how best to integrate that thinking with my daily studio practice, both as a series of reflections, which is a large part of what the studio is about I think, and as physical works that can create some kind of response to the concepts we’re being asked to consider, and act on.
Experimental Print Club #11
I’ve just dispatched edition #11 for the print club. It’s titled interStella / EPC / home. The piece combines a variant from my new interStella series with photography from the garden, specifically the soil under my sweet peas. I like the idea of experimenting with ideas around combining drawing and photography, and of course the subject matter alludes to ideas including the sense of place, the idea of growth, and the earth, or soil, as root, and begins to unpack some new ideas about permaculture, and how that may sit with my practice in the future.
Moniker 2019
Really looking forward to exhibiting work with the Blackwater Gallery at Moniker again this year. This October, Moniker brings its acclaimed event format to Chelsea, which has for 9 years attracted contemporary art collectors in their thousands to East London. Moving from Shoreditch to Chelsea marks a year of radical change, as Moniker continues to push the narrative of urban art.
interStella 2019
I’ve been working on a new series of 16 drawings, entitled interStella. It’s kind of a mash up of a number of geometries I’ve been studying, but most obviously an exploration, and complication, of the maths underlying the early works of American legend Frank Stella. I first saw his beautiful, epic, artworks at MOCA in LA in 1991, and was completely blown away. So it’s been on my mind for a long time to try and unpack some of his thinking, and riff on that beautiful style that came out of NYC in the late sixties. I hope I’ve bought a little fresh thinking and technique to bear too.
Summer 2019, interStella WIP
The inclusion of garden photography is coming in from that idea of combining the maths with and from nature, a kind of hybrid organic / digital fusion that hopefully speaks to the idea of the digital overlaying the natural world in ways that are both positive and beneficial. I’ve been out on some demos with Extinction Rebellion recently, enjoying the positivity of the movement, and am keen to try and think about how a contemporary art studio can sit lightly with the issues surrounding climate change.
Urban Contemporary Art & Street Photography, curated by Ben Eine and Dougie Wallace
Bidding is now OPEN on Art on a Postcard’s Urban Contemporary Art & Street Photography auction to raise money and awareness for The Hepatitis C Trust. Lovely to have two artworks included in the show…
Halcyon / dark carnival and Revolver / oxidised at Catto, June 2019
Lovely to get a new commission to produce a pair of drawings for an Austrian collector this June. These two pieces, Halcyon and Revolver are both 120cm square.
Art on a Postcard, coming soon...
Art on a Postcard raises money for The Hepatitis C Trust’s campaign to eliminate hepatitis C by the year 2025. We engage world-renowned artists to take part in our secret auctions and special events.
POP! At the Catto Gallery, May 2019
Lovely to be included at the Catto Gallery again this spring, for their POP! exhibition. Not entirely sure I fit the brief, but it's a pleasure to be hung alongside an incredibly strong group of artists.
Exhibiting artists: Deborah Azzopardi / Alain Bertrand / Peter Blake / Sebastian Burdon / Chuck Elliott / David Gerstein / Perish The Thought / David Spiller / Walasse Ting / Russell West
Stronger Together / Blackwater Gallery
Blackwater Gallery is excited to announce the release of their forthcoming exhibition “Stronger Together”
“We strongly believe in supporting local talent and we want to use this exhibition as a platform for both emerging and established artists alike, giving them the opportunity to showcase their body of works in a modern and contemporary art gallery.” Jamie Aherne, Gallery Director
Edition #10 sent!
Pleased to let you know that Edition #10 of the Experimental Print Club left the studio yesterday, so I hope it'll be with you shortly. Please do let me know if it doesn't arrive in due course.
London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy / Promo video
A short promo video about the London Original Print Fair, held annually at the Royal Academy on Piccadilly, featuring work by many of today’s most interesting contemporary printmakers.
London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy 2019
London Original Print Fair is held annually at the Royal Academy on Piccadilly, featuring work by many of today’s most interesting contemporary printmakers.
Collectible IV, A.Galerie, Paris / Opening 7pm, Thursday 4th April 2019
If you’re lucky enough to be in Paris this month, you may like to visit what looks set to be a really interesting group show at A.Galerie, just north of the Musée d'Art Moderne.
Curated by Arnaud Adida, I’m delighted to have four pieces included in the hang, alongside works by stellar photographic artists including David LaChapelle, Rankin and Elliott Erwitt.