Art in the Bar
Amber Mottram
Fri 10 Feb — Sun 25 March
Gwe 10 Chwef — Sul 25 Mawrth
Amber Mottram explores the notion of painting as sculptural object, constructing a visceral as well as aesthetic experience through skilful manipulation of depth, tactility and colour.
Working with thermoplastic screed (road paint), she pulls and stretches the material to its limits, forcing it through a steel frame, to leave behind the residual image. Through this process the paint becomes a material with substance; charged with a curious energy that simultaneously encapsulates a sense of organic growth and decomposition as it drips and flows between representation and abstraction.
The coexistence of the chaotic, organic form, juxtaposed with the ordered grid-like frame is fundamental to Mottram’s practice, within which she is fascinated by an exploration of the qualities of chance and random interference against intention and subjection.
For her exhibition at Chapter, Mottram is showing a selection of new and previously unseen work.
Biography
Amber Mottram studied at Cardiff School of Art and Design, graduating in 2011 with a First Class honours in Fine Art. She worked as studio assistant to artist Sean Edwards in 2010 and undertook a residency in 2006 for Experimentica Festival at Chapter. Recent exhibitions include:
‘Slunks Presents’, Slunks Hair Salon, Whitchurch Road, Cardiff; ‘Somebody People’ Kings Road Artists, The Dairy, Cardiff; ‘Affordable Art Fair’, Hampstead, London; ‘RWA Autumn Show’, Royal Academy of Art, Bristol (all 2011); ‘Inner Space’, Ty Oriel Coch, Cardiff (2010); ‘The Hans Brinker Award,’ Hans Brinker Hostel, Amsterdam, Holland (2009).
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