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Bryan Eccleshall

Hucknall
I'm based near Sheffield with a studio at Bloc and am currently working on a collection of oil paintings with imagery that rises from a large series of digital collages I made between 206 and 2018.

Since returning to art practice I have studied for a Masters and a Practice-led PhD. The research undertaken was focussed on how translation theory might be used to better understand visual reiteration.

Emerging from that research are two strands of practice. The first is practical. I make works that collide art works for many eras with other visual material (for example, images from science fiction films, contemporary news, ) to explore issues concerned with (to crudely summarise) ideology, religious fundamentalism, the refugee crisis, as well as embracing the feeling of being simlutaneously stimulated and overwhelmed by visual material. Lately I have become fascinated with pre-Renaissance imagery as it functions symbolically rather than representationally. Implicit in this work is a consideration of the nature of visual similarity and what that might indicate or reveal.

The second strand emerging for my doctoral research is pedagogical and informs the way I teach BA students, which I am keen to continue. I encourage students to develop a voice through comparing their work with others and to interrogate that relationship to reveal what underpins their approach to making, be it a process, a political concern, or something more psychological. Using works as 'yardsticks' against which things can be tested allows this to happen

I am ambitious to show my work more widely and to explore how artists might have faith in research methodologies founded in picture-making, and in reflecting on the work they make rather than illustrating theories generated beyond art practice.

 

Three Towers Tritych

Painting Sigmar Polke Painting

'Magnificent'

‘Inside Out / Outside In (for G.J.)’

Gas Mask aka Front Line

'Lascaux Painting'

Wachturm aka Ideology Materialised

Mickey Mouse Gas Mask

Flexible Sigmoidoscopy aka Colon of Creativity

Racist Flag

Oceanic Consciousness Invasion

Kids Go Free

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