{"id":19169,"date":"2020-10-28T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=19169"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:51:42","slug":"still-an-artist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/still-an-artist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Still An Artist #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

In light of the government’s retraining quiz, we\u2019ve decided to start a series foregrounding those artists defiantly persisting with their creative ventures. \u2018Still an Artist\u2019 is a show of support for art-heads everywhere, giving you an insight into the lives of our artists, as we meet them where they\u2019re at\u2026<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Lately, the ecstatic work of Lindsay Mapes<\/a> has been playing on our minds. Steeped in jewel tones and zesty neons, her abstractions literally simmer under the gaze. Each piece involves a steady build-up of marks and erasures, all competing with each other to reveal themselves on the works surface. The results are excitingly heady, like meeting new people at a party and discovering unlikely connections. I think we\u2019d all agree this is an experience seriously in lack at the moment! And yet, Mapes\u2019s work brings it right to us, in all its bustle of sherbet colour and sinewy pattern.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Lindsay Mapes<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

With her current pregnancy, Mapes is also preparing to welcome a very specific new stranger into her own life. We have news from the studio that she\u2019s been more productive than ever, experimenting with new painting processes, and even turning her brush to the walls of her home\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Originally from the USA, Mapes studied painting at the\u00a0San Francisco Art Institute (1996\u20132000), and the Studio Arts Centre International in Florence (2006\u201307). She then received an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in London (2008\u201310), and since then has split her time between London\u00a0and Italy. We love how she describes her work as a kind of \u201ccontemporary trompe l\u2019oeil\u201d, with optical illusions not strictly depicting reality, but also the internal build-up of memories.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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It\u2019s been interesting to\u00a0muse on the fact that artists often liken \u2018giving birth\u2019 to the process of creating a new artwork. Currently for Mapes the metaphor is ringing doubly true. We congratulate her, and are also excited to see where this takes her work in the future. For now,\u00a0have a see for yourself the utterly invigorating pieces we have on show…<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In light of the government’s retraining quiz, we\u2019ve decided to start a series foregrounding those artists defiantly persisting with their creative ventures. \u2018Still an Artist\u2019 is a show of support for art-heads everywhere, giving you an insight into the lives of our artists, as we meet them where they\u2019re at\u2026 Lately, the ecstatic work of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dispatches-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28486,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169\/revisions\/28486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}