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- Contributor name for Geoff Sansbury. Geoff Sansbury. Born 1941. Studied at Newcastle under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton 1960-64. Taught at Newcastle. 1964-65 Prix Di Rome. Painting. 1965-67. Retired from teaching. Subject leader. Digital Media.University of Wolverhampton.2001. Exhibited. Young Contemporaries. Young Contemporaries. Travelling. London Group. Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford Hatton Gallery. Newcastle. Westgate Gallery , Newcastle. Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle University of Durham Chapel Gallery, York. Laing City Gallery, Newcastle. British Academy, Rome. Palazzo di esposizione, Rome. L’ Angelo, Sperlongo, Italy American Gallery, Rome. Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool Harlech Bienalle Museum Tulle.Panicale.Italy. Museum of Modern Art Wales. Collaborative work on the internet:- The Glass Bead Game Has Started (interrupted by virus attack 2004) Almost The Last Brush Stroke. 2004 Awards. W.S. Smiles. Drawing prize. Young Contemporaries Prix di Rome. Public collections include Tyne and Wear Museum. Private collections in Europe and USA.
jcb said...
ReplyDeleteViolent - morbidly sumptuous - scalding, visceral - of raw wounds, bruises, flayed flesh, blood - the black ground and black brush marks full of menace, apocalyptic, deep space; ranging like the dark side of Goya's imagination.
The smaller fruit in 'peaches 2' holds a dark energy, like an imploded concentration of the larger fruit above. Decay - a rich seam.
Black is a new element in the work - restlessly subduing the brighter ground colours, though sometimes so vigourous and glossy itself between the fruit, it leaps closer to the surface than implied volumes - outlining shape but simultaneously invading and scarring it. All now darker, sometimes brutally so. Though some colour is still vivid - yellow/blue; yellow/violet; sage green, mustard and vermillion.
The canvas surface is very exciting - brush marks this/that way; sleek/rough textures; overlapping layers; thick/thins; mixing/non-mixings; modulations of colour. 'apples 3' is great as a purely abstract work.
28 MARCH 2011 12:04