Showing posts with label synthesis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label synthesis. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Private View at the Mid-Wales Arts Centre - Sunday 23rd March

 What's on at the Mid-Wales Arts Centre

Invitation time!

As I start gearing up for the next project, "New Artifices", some of the work from the 2012/13 project "Synthesis" is going to be part of a 3-artist exhibition at the Mid-Wales Arts Centre near Caersws, Powys.

The show runs from sun 23rd March to Sun 27th April, and after the gallery's winter closure, they are reopening with a private view of all 3 exhibitions on Sunday 23rd March at 3PM.

You can read all about "Synthesis" (and have a look at some work in progress) on the website at martinherbert.com. The other artists showing work:

Julie Jones responds through painting to her relationship to landscape in all its forms, from the strange urban hinterlands to weather-beaten derelicts. Her studio work aims to develop approaches to painting alluding to both a feeling specific to a moment along with references to memory of an experience over time.

Daniel Roberson paints everyday in his studio located on a sheep farm perched at the top of a hill overlooking the beautiful Dyfi Valley in Machynlleth. A lifelong painter, he returned to education as a mature student in 2006, Daniel obtained a first class degree in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University, and a Masters degree with distinction. Since completing his education, as well as exhibiting widely throughout the UK, he has been teaching life drawing and oil painting at MOMA Wales. In 2011 Daniel was shortlisted for the Welsh Artist of the Year. He would describe himself as a painter who finds inspiration equally in both the people and places that surround him and the seemingly endless possibilities of colour and mark making.

Saturday, 8 February 2014

Exhibition: Mid-Wales Arts Centre from Sunday 23rd March

 Click for the artist's website

Heads-up: While getting new projects under way, drawings from the last project, "Synthesis" will be on show at the Mid-Wales Arts Centre at Maesmawr Hall, Caersws, Powys, SY17 5SB from 23rd March to 27th April.  Selected works will continue to be shown there afterwards as part of the group exhibition for Powys Arts Month, which continues into May.

A chance for those who didn't quite make the opening at MOMA Wales last year to come and see the project. All works will be for sale. Private view details will follow soon ...


Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Thursday, 11 October 2012

Project Synthesis: Exhibition starts November 2nd


Private View:
Thursday 1st November 6:30 – 8:00 - all welcome.



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.

Design for a Flying Machine to Escape the Bank Manager” (Detail)  : Ink, pencil, gouache & transfer print on Khadi handmade paper : Copyright © 2012 by Martin Herbert
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.

Pan in Ireland” : Ink, pencil, gouache & pigment on Khadi handmade paper
Copyright © 2012 by Martin Herbert
Video installation:

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:

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

New video … and new exhibition!





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!