Approved: 06.03.2019

Bernard Charnley

Artist, Researcher

Approved: 06.03.2019

There is a strange and damaged hinterland of nature awakened in these displayed images. Yet their fateful appearance is illuminated by the imaginary of paint. It is a search for an undefined enchantment of shape, light, colour and metaphor, emerging out of alienated  terrains.

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    Artist Statement

    There is a strange and damaged hinterland of nature awakened in these displayed images. Yet their fateful appearance is illuminated by the imaginary of paint. It is a search for an undefined enchantment of shape, light, colour and metaphor, emerging out of alienated  terrains.

    It is this mystery of a damaged actual and its recuperated spirit that I find compelling, especially as it translates into changing forms and mediations across the paintings. It has a sense of a a journey or odyssey. One where the human, inscribed as a sign of making and abandonment, is then drawn into the spell of transfigured spaces.

    CV & Education

    Training:

    - Foundation / Maidenhead College of Art
    - Dip AD Course / Leeds College of Art
    - B.Ed (Hons) London University
    - MA Philosophy Open University

    Solo:

    - Colour Radicals/Rugby Art Gallery and Museum/Sept - Oct 2018
    - Signs Of Disorder/Rugby Art Gallery and Museum/Feb 2014
    - The Instability of Spaces/AirSpace Dialogue Box/Stoke-on-Trent/August 2009 
    - A Different Kind of Beauty/Harrington Studios/ Nottingham - April 2009

    Group Exhibitions/Events/Networks:

    -Featured in Highlights, AxisWeb/ Sept 2020
    -Coventry Artspace selected artist of interest/Axis Web membership March 2019
    -Coventry Open/Feb 2019
    -John Moores Painting Prize/ selected for exhibition July 2016
    -Volunteer participant/refurbish pre-Glassbox/Coventry/Jan 2013
    -ARC Pioneer volunteer and event participant/The Square and Herbert Art Gallery/Coventry 2013
    -Flash mob/Christmas Pop-up event/Coventry Station/The Square, Coventry/2012
    -ARC (ACE funded) print commission/Coventry Artspace/2012
    -The Serious And The Absurd - working towards comic criticality/Talk on practice/Coventry 2012
    -Earlsdon Festival Show/ Coventry/2012
    -Airvent/AirSpace Gallery/Stoke-on-Trent/2011
    -Slideshow/AirSpace Gallery/Stoke-on-Trent/2011
    -Kiss Me Quick/Harbour Arm Gallery/Margate/2011
    -Motel Knadski/Trajector Art Fair/Contributing Artist/Brussels/2011
    -There Is Beauty In The City/ Ezcurdia_30 Gallery/Gijon, Spain/August 2010
    -Common Ground/AirSpace public art exhibition/Hanley Park Stoke-on-Trent/June 2010
    -Learning Journeys/Urban Vision/Phase One/Sheffield/Feb 2010
    -Learning Journeys/Urban Vision/Phase One/Leicester/2009 
    -Pecha Kucha Night/FatCat Cafe and Bar/Co-organiser/Performer/Stoke-on-Trent 2009
    -Inter?ogation/Walsall New Art Gallery/Sept 2009 Collaborative with artist Brian Holdcroft
    -Marina Abramovich/participant /Whitworth Gallery/Manchester/2009 
    -AntiFreeze/Manchester/2009
    -Aftermath/AirSpace studio artists/Leek Institute, Leek/2009 
    -Preston Pest Project/Castlefield Gallery  2008-Allotments/Harrington Studios, Nottingham 2009
    -Salon /D2 Gallery/Leipzig, Germany  2008 
    -Play/AirSpace, Stoke-on-Trent 
    -Short Cuts/AirSpace Gallery 2008
    -Identity/The Artists Organisation/ Nottingham 2007
    -Headtalk/forum/co-creator/Stoke-on-Trent 2007-8