Angela Holyoak
"My work is in direct response
to the physicality, colour and movement of nature, in which I see
the curves of the human form. I work with layers of transparent
oil paint, almost like a performance, adding and wiping off, veiling
and unveiling an image and constantly restructuring form. Marks
are kept from previous layers; these constantly keep the painting
alive. Like Jackson Pollock, I am the figure within the painting,
constantly searching to attain a certain kind of communication between
the elements in the painting and myself. It can be an immensely
exciting experience and equally daunting. The Painting is constantly
evolving until completion.
During the last five years I have
been fascinated by the effect of the Earth Mother on our pre-historic
ancestors, whilst studying for a Fine Arts Degree. The human form
can materialise in my work as Gaia. She appears, as she was in pre-historic
times, in supreme command of the whole volatile dance of experience,
language and meaning, expressed in ritual and ceremony. She might
appear headless, as a limb or as a complete, nurturing and heavy-breasted
mother figure. I look to a new kind of art, a Shamanistic pre-historic
art re-discovered. I aspire to a time before the written word, when
simple images could thrill or frighten with a strange sense of possibility."
EDUCATION
2001
|
BA Hons Fine Art Painting. University of Plymouth
and Exeter |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003
2001
2000 |
The Camelford Gallery, Camelford
Nine Days of Art, Devon
Nine Days of Art, Devon |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
2004
2003 - 2004
2002 - 2003
2002 - 2003
2001 - 2003
2003
2002
2002
1999 - 2003
2000 - 2002
2001
2001
2000
1999 - 2000
1999
1999
1998 - 2000
1997 - 2000
|
The Goldfish Bowl, Penzance
Lotus Gallery, Bath
The Art Farm, Devon
Harbour House, Devon
Hind Street Gallery, Devon
Beatrice Royal Gallery, Hampshire
Gallery 22, Devon
Affordable Art Fair, London
Chapel Gallery, Devon
Visual Arts Festival, Devon
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Devon
Millfield Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
Degree Show, University of Plymouth, Devon
Black Swan Guild, Somerset
Abbotsbury Studios, Dorset
Viewpoint Gallery, Devon
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
East Street Gallery, Devon
Seymour Gallery, Devon |
RESIDENCIES
2003
2002 |
Cill Rialaig International Artists Retreat, Co.
Kerry. Ireland
Brison's Veor Women Artists Retreat, Cape Cornwall, Cornwall |
|
