Q painting

Constellations. York College Gallery. 12th May - 7th June

2012-01-27T05:04:00.000-08:00

The titles of these drawings refers not to ‘constellation’ in its
celestial sense, being a group of stars that form a recognisable
pattern, but rather a group of associated or similar people or
things.

This group of recent small scale drawings are
not the result of a narrow thematic investigation, focused on
any one particular subject. They function instead as a visual
stream of consciousness where connections are made between
drawings that generate alternate readings and prompt a related
set of images that continue the process.

Between fifteen and twenty 13cm x 20cm drawings on found books are worked on together

in order to maximise the potential for each image to subtly alter
those around it, like a visual virus, resulting in images that have
evolved substantially from their origins.

A selection of paintings from these drawings can be seen at York College gallery from May 12th to June 7th 2012.

Predicting the past/Waldsee. Graphite, bleach and ink on found books. 2011/12

2012-01-14T05:52:00.000-08:00

In the Summer of 1944, recently deported Jews sent postcards to Budapest from a place called Waldsee. The postcards were handed to the Jewish Council in Budapest to be distributed to the addressees. "I am doing fine," the cards read. "I am working," or "I have arrived safely. I have got work in my occupation," or "Follow us here!"

Those who received a postcard from Waldsee searched for it on a map and easily found a place with this name. More than one, in fact; there was a "Waldsee" in Austria and in Switzerland. One of the leaders of the Hungarian Jewish Council, Fulop Freudiger, helped to distribute the postcards. It was he who noticed that on one of them, the word "Waldsee" was imposed over another name ending in "witz." Only later, at the end of June, would he fill out the remainder of the obscured postmark: Auschwitz.

These six drawings are based upon collages from as many examples of “Waldsee” tourist locations in Europe that I could find on the internet. Mimicking the original lie, they are fictions of a romantic rural idyll that depict simple pleasures at odds with the reality behind the original postcards.

Selection of paintings and drawings for METAL (Edge Hill Liverpool) Residency 2011

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2011-11-03T07:09:00.001-07:00

James Quin

Recent painting. Oil on board. 2011

2011-10-29T08:47:00.000-07:00

Waldsee. Ink on paper. 2011

2011-10-29T08:28:00.000-07:00

Michael Borremans 1999

2011-10-29T08:05:00.000-07:00

Adrian Ghenie 2011

2011-10-29T07:39:00.000-07:00

Lara Viana 2011

2011-10-28T09:54:00.001-07:00

Bend In The River Gallery...2011

2011-10-03T12:10:00.000-07:00

Selection of artists work represented by Bend in the river gallery
http://www.bendintheriver.co.uk/?p=1907

2011-09-24T04:32:00.000-07:00

Point of departure. 2011

2011-09-24T04:29:00.000-07:00

Hybrid. 2011

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Paul Housley. Blue Boy. 2011

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Bernadette O'Toole. 2011

2011-09-19T13:08:00.001-07:00

Henry Tietzsch-Tyler

2011-09-19T13:02:00.000-07:00

Real time. 2010

2011-09-19T12:58:00.001-07:00

Vlad Yurashko

2011-09-19T12:56:00.001-07:00

Repetition. Graphite/watercolour on 300 found books. Liverpool Bluecoat. 2010

2011-09-19T12:55:00.000-07:00

yellow collar. 2011

2011-09-19T12:51:00.000-07:00

2011-09-19T12:45:00.000-07:00

http://jamesquin.tumblr.com/

2011-09-18T11:43:00.000-07:00

Recent paintings 2011. In the company of Lost Things

2011-09-18T11:38:00.000-07:00