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Gwenyth Fugard - Artists - JB Art Gallery - An Online Contemporary Gallery.

Gwenyth Fugard is a London based artist originally from New Zealand. 

Her practice attends to the importance of material and process, as each painting operates as a self-contained world, exposing the evolution of their making. The works are non- representational, she does not proceed with the intention of abstracting from the outside world. Gwenyth is interested in developing each painting with the notion of the work being about itself and of itself. Emphasing construction, not merely the painting of the painting, through assemblage of textile, and a process of folding, stitching, tearing and building an additional skin, resulting in the works appearing quite bodily. Oscillating between excess and restraint, hesitancy and assertion, privacy and disclosure, the paint is pressed into canvas, linen, organza and scrim. 

Gwenyth Fugard - Artists - JB Art Gallery - An Online Contemporary Gallery.

Slippage 11, 2021

Gwenyth Fugard - Artists - JB Art Gallery - An Online Contemporary Gallery.

Slippage 3, 2019

Gwenyth, exposes the mechanics of painting during the construction and deconstruction of the painting, allowing incidents to occur resulting in the surface becoming a landscape of decisions upon which she navigates. 

Imposing difference and contrast to sit side by side, as if a duality of forces are at play. This duality is often staged through presenting a vertical division, as she investigates how little or how excessive her application can be for the work to become a painting. 

The periphery and supporting structure is emphasised by exposing more detail, weaknesses and salvage as the structure is sometimes wrapped and bandaged. Part air and partly grounded, the works proceed as she adds and removes paint and textile until the painting finds its own internal logic, its own truth and resting place. 

Gwenyth Fugard - Artists - JB Art Gallery - An Online Contemporary Gallery.

Slippage 12, 2021

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Selected Works

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SLIPPAGE 3 Oil on Canvas Unframed - w140cm x h130 cm  2019 £6,750

SLIPPAGE 3

Oil on Canvas

Unframed - w140cm x h130 cm 

2019

£6,750

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SLIPPAGE 11 Oil on Canvas Framed - w85cm x h95 cm  2021 £4,580

SLIPPAGE 11

Oil on Canvas

Framed - w85cm x h95 cm 

2021

£4,580

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SLIPPAGE 12 Oil on Canvas Framed - w85cm x h95 cm  2021 £4,850

SLIPPAGE 12

Oil on Canvas

Framed - w85cm x h95 cm 

2021

£4,850

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SLIPPAGE 3 Oil on Canvas Unframed - w140cm x h130 cm  2019 £6,750
SLIPPAGE 11 Oil on Canvas Framed - w85cm x h95 cm  2021 £4,580
SLIPPAGE 12 Oil on Canvas Framed - w85cm x h95 cm  2021 £4,850

Artist's CV

Lives and works in London

NATIONALITY 
British / New Zealand

EXHIBITIONS

2021 JB Gallery, ‘Ethereal Reality’, group show

2020 Unit 1 Gallery, London, ‘Invitational 1’, Resident Group Show Lisa Norris Gallery, London, ‘Artist in Focus’
Lisa Norris, London, ‘Summer Exhibition’ 

2019 Koppel Project Event, ‘Gestura’, group show, London
Lisa Norris Gallery, London, ‘Painting with Thread’, group show Unit 1 Gallery, London, ‘Editions Show’ group show
Lisa Norris Gallery, London, ‘Four in Focus’, group show 

2018 Herrick Gallery, London, group show
Lisa Norris Gallery, London, winter group show
Unit 1 Gallery, London, ‘Radical Residency II’, group show
Roaming Room Gallery, London, Collaborations 5, ‘The Hand of the Artist’, group show Lisa Norris Gallery, London, ‘Accidental Beauty’, solo show 

2017 North House Gallery, Manningtree Essex 

2016 Lisa Norris Gallery, London, ‘Stratum’, group show
2016 Lisa Norris Gallery, London, ‘Monochromatic’, group show 

2015 Roaming Room Gallery, London, ‘Collaborations 4’, group show 2015 Lisa Norris Gallery, London, Solo Show 

2014 NOA, Minerva Theatre, Chichester NOA, Somerset House, London 

Lisa Norris Gallery, London, group Show
'Verve Open 2014', London
'Signature Art Prize Exhibition', Degree Art, Vyner Street, London 

2013 'Rising Stars', Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon 

AWARDS

2018 Exceptional Art Award, Collyer Bristow, London 

2017 The Tony Carter Award, MA, City & Guild School of Fine Art 2014 NOA Finalist, London

Winner, 'Signature Art Prize', London (painting category) Long listed for Griffin Art Prize, London 

2013 Clyde & Co Art Award, London 

EDUCATION

2016-2017 City and Guild School of Fine Art MA HONS FINE ART

2008 – 2013  Central Saint Martins School of Fine Arts BA HONS FINE ART

 

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