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Ethan Pollock
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Degree: BA (Hons) Fine Art
University: Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
Graduation Year: 2009
New Blood Art Statement
Pollock creates atmospheric and contained paintings of charged and invested objects, structures and interiors; with a painterly touch that is unobtrusive while being quietly insinuating.
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Artist Statement
My aim is to create quiet, meditative paintings that deal with themes of loss and desire. I try to develop playful dialogues with the history of painting, commandeer archaic themes and languages and breathe life into them through piracy and pillage. I'm looking for a Shakespearean balance of comedy and tragedy, and trying to disrupt our more puritanical expectations. Working on a small scale allows the paintings to develop an intimate dialogue with the viewer, and behave as a keyhole to a more private and ambiguous place.I paint with oil on copper, building the image up slowly through series of layered glazes - this historic and labour intensive process lends the work a peculiar intensity. My work is strongly influenced by the stillness of paintings by artists like Chardin and Vermeer, the humility and peace they exude has sparked my own pursuit of quietude.
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Young Masters Fundraising Exhibition, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK (Hosted by Rupert Cavendish Antiques)
2011 Urban Dialogues, Red Gallery, London, UK
2011 Scope Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2010 Invasion of Privacy, Not Famous Yet, Oxford, UK
2010 Images of St. Paul's in the 21st Century, St Paul's Cathedral, London, Uk
2010 Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2010 Going West, Guillochon Gallery, Putney Exchange, London, UK
2010 'murmurART: an introduction', murmurART, London, UK
2009 'Small Obsessions', Not Famous Yet, Oxford, UK
2009 Highlights from the Franks-Suss Collection, 38 West Heath Road, London, UK
2009 Summer Exhibition, McNeill Gallery, Hertfordshire, UK
2009Ba Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London , UK