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Pete Mountford

Shoreham - by - Sea
Based on the South Coast of the UK near Brighton.Practising for 30 + years., mainly Painting/mixed media. I also have had a long career as a Art Lecturer/Tutor and organiser of Exhibitions.
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I started in ceramic sculpture in the early 1990's.  On my MA  in NJ, USA  I increased my love of’ Americana’  via  the signage and imagery around me.  I created monolithic ceramic forms  which combined with elements such as photographs , maps and found car reflector lights  explored ideas around how transit marked its presence on the landscape and as a link between places.

I moved into painting, drawing in the late 1990's underpinned by an approach of system and chance which meant having a defined structure to work within, whilst also being able to apply endless concepts and approaches within this framework.  Using the maths aid of Cuisenaire rods, I associated  colours to specific numbers and appropriated these onto an existing theme in sequence

The work has followed the themes of landscape/urban culture  and  mapping since  2007 often with system and chance being the bedrock.  It has also been important for me to frequently utilise the grid, either within a works themselves or and part of multi panel piece where the narrative and dialogue between each module acts as an extra hook to engage the viewer.

I am inspired by using mixed media in my work, be that applying contact with a range of implements and on different surfaces. I find the interplay and dialogue exciting as one decision invokes another problem or direction.

In recent years, I have i have increasingly made work that has responded to The populist turmoil  in the western world with my  ‘Fighting the Culture Wars’ series. This attempts to visually and conceptually respond to the entrenched political and social divisions in the world and the polarity between the resultant opposing forces and how this isolation and dislocation has inflicted on the human spirit

My critical framework has also been underpinned by my role as an Art Lecturer/Facilitator through often engaging learners in response to my work  and also patients with a  particapatory task when I  exhiibited in a doctors surgery recently.

 

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