Crowd Series
David Chisholm (born 21st May 1960) is an English artist, currently studying a BA (hons) degree in Fine Art at Falmouth Art College in Cornwall. Evolving from a background in graphic art and design his style is unusual and diverse. His Influences by the likes of Warhol, Munoz, Manray, Hurst and Gormley to name but a few, fuse together in his distinctive approach to his art, which has already in this early stage been described as iconic by his peers.
His work is passionate, personal and intimate, drawing deeply from the artists own life, exploring the depths and complexities of human emotion and its manifestations. It also looks at human interaction, a prime example of which can be seen in these exhibition pieces in which he is investigating positives and negatives in people and their interactions with the artist and each other in the street or public environment.
Chisholm, a spontaneous artist works in various disciplines: Painting, Drawing, Photography and Sculpture. His works are almost always figurative and often deeply conceptual, his sculptural work and installations have also been exhibited and critically very well received.
The technique used in the paintings in this exhibition involves both extreme control and total abandonment to the will of the painting. These paintings are brushed and pushed charcol on paper, utilising a technique which requires a great deal of control and virtuosity, each mark made is permanent and unforgiving leaving no margin for error. Once a stroke has been laid down it is there to stay. Virtuosity is demonstrated by an ability to harness those aspects of the painting that go their own way. As novelists often say of their characters, it is important to let them have a mind and life of their own, because the unpredictable and accidental parts of the process can often be the freshest and most exciting aspects of a composition. In summation, this technique is the simultaneous mastery of total control and total surrender.
A small sculptural piece accompanies the paintings, this conceptual piece consists of the artists own fingers cast in lead and inter-connected by steel rods, symbolising his freedom and escape from constraints of his past work.
Preview: Monday 5th October, 6-8pm.
