The life and works of contemporary British artist Martin Herbert. Symbolic paintings, philosophical musings, and occasional whimsically altered junkshop finds.
Last few prints just wrapped and ready for delivery. The curator at the Radnorshire Museum, Will Adams, has been busy hanging things for the last 2 days, and (fingers crossed), everything is ready for tomorrow night's opening ... after which I will be taking a very well deserved week off before starting up the new business! (Of which more later, etc. etc. etc..... :-)
So remember - private view of the Project Synthesis exhibition at the Radnorshire Museum, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, LD1 5DL at 6:30PM tomorrow, Thursday 1st November! Fourteen new large-scale works on paper, plus some of the older work which formed the original starting point for the project, and a video installation .... All work is for sale.
If you can't make the opening, the exhibition continues until Sat. 12th Jan. For a map and opening hours, especially over the holiday period, please check out the Radnorshire Museum website.
The project I've been working on all summer is entitled “Synthesis”.
I received a grant earlier in the year from the Arts Council of Wales to
support the development of a new body of work, which is now going on
show in a one-man exhibition at the Radnorshire Museum in Llandrindod
Wells.
Exhibition details:
“Synthesis: New works on paper by Martin Herbert”
at the Radnorshire Museum, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells, Powys,
LD1 5DL
Friday 2nd November 2012 – Saturday 12th
January 2013
Open Tues-Fri 10:00 – 4:00, Sat 10:00 – 1:00
For more information, mail me, or call the museum on 01597 824 513
Private View:
Thurs. 1st Nov. 2012 - 6:30 - 8:00 - all welcome
About the Project:
The “Synthesis”
project has two distinct strands with one theme in common – they
both concern the relationship between digital 'new media' and
traditional drawing and painting techniques. My goal is to explore
ways in which computers and the internet can be used to source
material which inspires illustrations and innovative new work to be
carried out using traditional materials and techniques.
The
first strand concerns the production of new organisms, machines and
organic constructs using 3D computer modelling technology, which I
then use as inspiration for new drawings done using the earthiest and
most organic of materials – sepia ink, clay pencils, earth pigments
etc.
The
second strand involves sourcing written material from the internet -
I am using these texts as the basis for new illustrated editions of
neglected or beloved books which have now passed into the public
domain through expiry of copyright and are now available to anyone
who cares to download them from web archives. The illustrated
editions will then be uploaded back to the internet as e-books,
completing the cycle. The first book to receive this treatment is
Irish author James Stephen's 'fairy tale for grownups', The
Crock of Gold (Reviews here).
The illustrations are a work in progress, leading up to publication
of a new illustrated edition in 2013.
A
selection of work from the “unlikely
realms”
series of digital organic abstract prints, which were part of the
original inspiration for the Synthesis
project “organic construct” strand.
Project
Synthesis
has been made possible with the support of:
I've just
finished this new video entitled “Synthesis”. It presents a lot
of organic digital abstract work made a while ago which helped to inspire my current project (also called Synthesis ).
View directly on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/2jIFhP6g1mY. In full HD (1080i) if your broadband is fast enough - it seems to work best at 720p over our link.
The video
installation will be part of the Synthesis Project exhibition ….
starting on Fri 2nd Nov 2012 at the Radnorshire Museum,
Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells, Powys LD1 5DL. The exhibition of
new works on paper, mainly large scale drawings, will run until 12th
January 2013.
There will
be a private view on Thurs 1st Nov. At 6PM … all are
welcome to attend (which I guess technically speaking just makes it a
'view'!).
More
details about the project and the exhibition coming very shortly ….
watch this space!
