Rebecca Ash

Norwich School of Art and Design - BA Fine Art Painting

Bucks Chilterns University College, Bucks - BTEC Foundation in Art and Design

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Artist Statement

Vibrant contemporary paintings concerned with seductive surfaces, colours and paints. These modern works capture your attention and stretch your imagination.

On first impressions the paintings seem purely abstract; but closer inspection reveals hidden characters. The abstract monochromes, or drip paintings, are obscured with creatures from the world of figurative or illustrative painting.

Tensions are produced within the paintings by combining colours, industrial and artist's paints, and graphic and painterly styles. These tensions are exploited to create different effects - clashes to create nausea, seductiveness for beauty and subtlety for intrigue.

While earlier works have been inspired by the horror and fantasy of the hybrid, the newer work takes a role of an abstract self-portrait; concerned still with the exploratry paint processes.

DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH: 05/02/82 High Wycombe , Bucks

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

March 2005 Snapstix UK Ltd

Head of Administration

Ordering, Invoicing, Account Management and Customer Services for Sign Company.

Oct 2002 – June 2004 Adlards Restaurant, Norwich –

Waitress

Michelin Star awarded Restaurant

Two years part-time work while at University in this well-established restaurant.

1999 –2001 The Crown Heritage Hotel – Old Amersham

Restaurant Supervisor

I was responsible for 10 staff members and for the running the three food and beverage areas of the hotel.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sept – Oct 2005 Solo Exhibition at All Saints Church

Month Solo Exhibition in Hereford

June – July 2005 Exhibition at Waterloo Gallery London

Part of an Open Exhibition at Waterloo Gallery, Baylis Road, Waterloo, London. 

April – May 2005 Adopt an Artist

Exhibition at Civic Centre Aylesbury as part of Aylesbury Vale County Council ‘Adopt an Artist’ Scheme

February 2005 Internship at ‘Proud Galleries’ London

6 week Internship at International Photography Gallery in London

2004 Norwich School of Art

Member of the Catalogue Committee

Fund raising and design of the degree show catalogue  

2004 Painting displayed at Adlards Restaurant

Painting currently exhibited in this Michelin Star awarded Restaurant in Norwich.

December 2003 Art Exhibition at the Hans Brinker Hotel / Kurkstad – Holland

One of five students selected to exhibit alongside English and Dutch exhibitors in this International Art Show in Holland.

June 2003 ‘Dark Days’ Exhibition, Capitol House, Norwich.

Exhibitor in self funded exhibition

Part of a group of artists who promoted, constructed and exhibited site specific work in a disused warehouse.

May 2003 Norwich School of Art Exhibition

Joint Curator of ‘Party in the Art’ Exhibition

Responsible for arranging and negotiating the use of public space with the local council. Successfully staged the exhibition and advertised it to the local community.

Summer 1999 Dorling Kindersley Publishing Company

Work Experience – Illustration Department

Shadowed an illustrator  

Summer 1998 World challenge Expedition to Sulawesi

With a group of 25 students spent a summer in Sulawesi trekking through the jungle and had the opportunity to experience life in another culture

This challenge also consisted of raising money for the trip individually and for the group

INTERESTS:

-Half Marathon Running

-Travelling

-Modern and History of Art

Rebecca Ash

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