Y GRÅ´P CYMREIG THE WELSH GROUP
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Jess Woodrow
Datganiad yr artist:
"Painting for me involves a lot of watching and waiting, hoping it will work out and become something that will make me feel calm and at peace with the world. The dystopian place doesn't interest me, but ambiguity does, and being playful with space.
Until recently I called myself a landscape painter, but I realised that this was misleading. Everything is landscape. I like a painting to have aspects of landscape and still life. The object placed in a space in an integrated surface.
My painting is about integrating the materials with the subject so they feel like they are the same thing. A kind of dance between mark and meaning.
I'm with Susan Sontag, when she talked about being against interpretation of art. A painting must hold you in a kind of enchanted moment when your attention doesn't wander. A moment before grammar kicks in.
My current work has involved going back to earlier days when it was more about still life and interiors. Now I want to bring everything together, inside and outside. When I was a student I was obsessed with Morandi, looking to his later work where landscape seemed to merge with the still life, and all sense of scale was lost.
I never want to forget that a painting is an object, When you place it in a space, on a wall, then that space is changed. A painting must change how you relate to the space around it, and how you feel in that space."
Eni: Malvern, Swydd Gaerwrangon, Lloegr.
Byw: Y Gelli, Powys, Cymru.
Addysg:
MA - Bath College of Art + Design (2008 - gwahaniaeth) Celfyddyd Gain (pg dip) - Prifysgol Cymru (Caerdydd).
BA (Anrh) Celfyddyd Gain - Howard Gardens, Caerdydd. (1990)
Diploma mewn Astudiaethau Sylfaen - Weston-super-Mare College of Art.
Arddangosfeydd dewis:
2023 Sioe Grŵp Concentric - West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff.
2023 RCA Arddangosfa agored, Conwy.
Gwobr paentio BEEP 2022, Elysium, Abertawe.
2022 'Mad shadows Mute ghosts'. Curadwyd gan Jess Woodrow: Sioe grŵp gyda JacquelineAlkema, Rosie McLachlan, Sophie Woodrow, Flora McLachlan, Oriel Q, Arberth Sir Benfro.
2022 'Walking in Two Worlds', sioe grŵp. Curadwyd gan JonathanPowell, Steph Goodger, Julian Rowe. Volcano, Swansea (Elysium).
2022 'Hibernation', sioe grŵp gyda gwaith wedi'i greu wrth gloi. Curadwyd gan David Morgan Davies. Art Shop ac oriel y Capel Y Fenni.
2022 Drawing. Sioe aelodau. Oriel Q, Arberth.
2021 Agweddau ar Dirwedd - 3 artist. Oriel Q, Arberth. Curadwyd gan Harriet Addyman.
2021 'Walking in Two Worlds'. Curadwyd gan Jonathan Powell, Steph Goodger and Julian Rowe. Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford ag Oriel Caernarfon, Gwynedd.
2016 'The Sound of Water', sioe unigol. Oriel Q, Arberth, Sir Benfro.
2015 Art Shop ac oriel y Capel y Fenni - sioe haf.
2015 '10 Artists from Bristol and London', Searchers Contemporary, Bryste.
2013 'Objects of Desire'. Searchers Contemporary, Bryste.
2010 Open Painting - A survey of contemporary painting. RWA Bryste.
2006/8 Arddangosais gyda West Wales Art centre Abergwaun.