Art Exhibition Malcolm Tait
Posted by Angela Gooch on April 10, 2008
Art found on the beach!
What: An exhibition of new paintings by artist Malcolm Tait. There are two themes behind the new work the first is ‘Objects found on the beach’, the second ‘Fairy Tales’ whose foundations were fashioned on quite beach walks…
Once upon a time a frog, a scorpion and me……
Trunch Lane.
When: Friday 11th April – Sunday 13th April. 10.30 am – 5.00pm daily.
Where: The Artists Studio, Shalom, Chapel Lane, Addlethorpe, Lincolnshire, PE24 4TG
Admission: Free
Malcolm Tait says…
A favourite place for thinking and developing new ideas I have for work is whilst walking on the beach, anywhere on the Lincolnshire Coast. On these walks I develop in my mind how and why the images I create will change and develop, this has been especially true for the current series of work I am producing at the moment on Fairy Tales. I am interested in Fairy tales and folklore for many reasons, the influence they exert on adult individuals from fables learnt in childhood, the similarities that exist between fairytales from different cultures, and the power of language. All knowledge we acquire about the outside world comes to us through language, in education, work, leisure, even simple visual objects are internalised with the aid of language. This theme is a continually developing strand of my work.
Having walked the beach for the twenty odd years I have lived in the region I am always surprised by variety of things found on the beach, so I decided to use some of the things I found on the beach in new paintings I have created. The painting in Attachment 2, Trunch Lane, has on it a painting of a tyre found on the beach just north of Trunch Lane, but also has attached to the canvas a piece of chord from a fisherman’s net attached to the canvas. There are five new paintings which have actual objects found in the location painted attached to the canvases. On one a ground down shell, on another a piece of driftwood. The beach in different locations can look very similar and so what I have tried to achieve in the work is an appreciation of the mood and weather on the day depicted.
Contact:
Contact Person: Malcolm Tait
Telephone Number: 01754 873803
Fax Number: None
Email Address: malcolm.tait51@tiscali.co.uk
Web site address: www.malcolmtait.co.uk
History: Malcolm winner of this year’s South Holland Open Art Prize with prize money of £1000.00 was born in the Scottish Borders in 1951. His development to practicing artist has taken a roundabout route his first employment was in the Borders woollen mills, then a sheep’s wool grading business, followed by work as a publican in London and Norfolk, a London taxi driver, a lobster fisherman and picture framer. Art however has always been a passion and his development into artist whilst gradual was a continual process, taking place over all of his working years. Malcolm has lived in Addlethorpe on the East Coast for the last twenty years where he has his studio.
Artistic History:
Upcoming Exhibitions.
April 2008: Minor Works, Chapel Gallery Ormskirk, Lancashire.
April 2008: Spring Open Exhibition, J Gallery, Northampton.
Previous Exhibitions:
February 2008: Selected for the opening Waterside Open Exhibition in Sale Manchester.
January 2008: Winner of the South Holland open Art prize.
Summer 2007: “In search of Albion” A temporary sculptural project funded by Arts
Council England an outdoor project run over this summer exploring our
contemporary love of travel.
July2007: Sculpture Project at Birkbeck School and Community Arts College
North Lincolnshire.
June 2007: Sculpture Project at Burgh-Le-Marsh Primary School, Lincolnshire.
August 2006: Producer of ‘Extremities’ Edinburgh Fringe Festival
August 2005: Burdens Award winner, East Midlands.
May 2004: Selected for the Mercury Music prize, Students Art exhibition at the Air
Gallery in London.
Numerous solo and joint exhibitions (see CV on website)
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