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New ViewContemporary Painting in Swansea

23 Mehefin - 28 Gorffennaf 2007

Mission Gallery's summer exhibition is New View - Contemporary Painting in Swansea. It is the first in a series of group exhibitions featuring recent work by artists, craftmakers, and designers based in Swansea and shows new work by Paul Giuffrida, Mandy Mitchell, Jonathan Powell and Amanda Roberts. 

This exhibition features four painters, all of whom have studied at Swansea Institute with the exception of Paul Guiffrida, who studied at Cardiff College of Art, committed to following their practice in Swansea. The city and its surroundings influences each artist and the development of their work in different ways; the industrial past, contemporary night life, city living, or just a place to live, work and contemplate.

Paul Giuffrida's work reflects his fascination with the fabric of buildings, his carefully constructed multi layered textures are collages of personal and inherited memory, containing pasts and secrets that are hinted at but never quite revealed, before crumbling away irretrievably.

Jonathan Powell's work comments on today's environment, painting the tight claustrophobic atmosphere of the human landscape, where large crowds of people bump and jarr into each other, damaging one another in an environment where the individual scarcely exists.

Amanda Roberts has produced a series of paintings using the imagery of a Saturday night on Wind Street as a starting point to explore a juxtaposition with the domestic. In the images the figure becomes isolated within and enveloped by a dreamlike and unfocused urban environment.

Mandy Mitchell creates work which comes from a need to explore and express the way that we are shaped by personal experience and relationships; about loss, how one deals with it, the feelings one wakes with every day and the search for a new future.

 

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