Tristram Aver

We think Aver’s work looks like someone’s dropped an atom bottom in a cartoon, in a good way. Merging the abstract with recognisable forms, as well as with imagery at the threshold of recognition - these works are highly energising. Short-listed for New Contemporaries 2003, Aver’s artwork... More»

We think Aver’s work looks like someone’s dropped an atom bottom in a cartoon, in a good way. Merging the abstract with recognisable forms, as well as with imagery at the threshold of recognition - these works are highly energising. Short-listed for New Contemporaries 2003, Aver’s artwork responds to a technological culture - harnessing the potential of new media and feeding the results back into a tangled world of paint.

"I see my work as an interpretation of our time. As the use of technology shapes our world and our responses to it, my interest lies in examining the volume of visual information we are bombarded with every day in this digital age. I attempt to create a personal yet formal language, through painting, to communicate this visual information, translating it into a single, stimulating new language. I aim to capture and identify a hybrid, ‘sampled’ view of the world that imitates the implosion of visual information to the eye.”

Since graduating in 2002, Tristram Aver has been involved in activities ranging from album cover artwork for the Cooper Temple Clause breakthrough album to producing the visuals for BBC projects.

Prizes
2007, Shortlisted Artist for The Celeste Art Prize 2007, London
2006, Hallward Art Prize, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
2003, Short-listed artist for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003

Solo Exhibitions
2004, Tristram Aver, Gallery DNA, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire
2000, The Conservatoire, Birmingham
1999, The Conservatoire, Birmingham

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006,The Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2006, 50th Annual Summer Exhibition, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
2005, 2D Open, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2005, Fiction Translation Location, Blake’s Lock Museum, Reading
2005, Open Studios 2005, Open Hand Open Space Studios and Gallery, Reading
2005,Intermission#1, Gallery DNA, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
2004, Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading
2004,Open Studios 2004, Open Hand Open Space Studios and Gallery, Reading
2004, Colour & Texture, Jelly Leg’d Chicken Gallery, Reading
2004, HP, Hype Gallery, London
2002, Deduce, School of Fine Art, Birmingham
2001, Level II, The Custard Factory, Birmingham.