Day Bowman
London
Day Bowman: a painter whose work lies on the axis of figuration and abstraction.
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In my latest body of work I have set out to investigate how and why we travel the landscapes of Britain that are passed through, ignored or deleted from the collective memory.
Whilst the paintings represent snapshots of journeys taken through cities, suburbs, retail parks, parking lots and endless motorways, the rear-view mirror - a constant in the works - represents a two-way mirror of past and future. The mirror comes to represent a gateway, very much in the present, but allowing us to reflect on what has gone before and what might take place.
Thus our daily journeys to work, the station or retail parks is laid open and the routine criss-crossing the land and our daily lives is brought into focus; journeys which we absorb, acknowledge or ignore.
DAY BOWMAN
Email: day@daybowman.com www.daybowman.com
1980 Graduated Chelsea School of Art and London University
Recent Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2015 Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton
Alchemy, Jenny Blyth Fine Art at Art Jericho Oxford
2014/15 Borders, Boundaries and Margins, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
2014 Dorset County Hospital
2012 Barclays Premier, Piccadilly London
ICCI Dome, Weymouth beach Olympic celebrations
Olympic Commission at Weymouth Station
Atkinson Gallery Millfield
2011 Kelly Ross Fine Art, The Art Stable
Quay Arts, I.O.W.
Black Swan Arts, Frome Festival
2008 Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole
2006 Art First, London ‘WaterZones’
Karin Sanders Fine Art, New York, USA
Sherborne House, Dorset ‘Coast Works’
2005 Art First, London ‘Paint’
Recent Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 [Painting Now]: Studio One Gallery London
Art Bermondsey Summer Salon
Studio 1.1gallery London Open
Edgelands - touring exhibition:
Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Hartlepool Art Gallery, ARB Cambridge
University; Beverley Museum and Art Gallery; The City Gallery
Gloucester Museum
2016 Edgelands: A.P.T Gallery, Deptford London
Edgelands: The Crypt, St. Marylebone Parish Church London
The Sunday Times Watercolour Open - touring
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London
RWA Open, Bristol
Columbia Threadneedle Painting Open
2015 Drawn: Royal West of England Academy
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - touring
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2013/14 Soft Estate: The Bluecoat Liverpool; Spacex Exeter
2014 Royal West of England Academy Open
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Aesthetica Art Prize: York St. Mary’s, York
John Moores Painting Prize (shortlisted)
2013 Nord Art 2013, Germany
Aesthetica Art Prize: York St. Mary’s, York
2012 RWA Open
ING Discerning Eye
National Open Art Competition
2011 Millfield Open (Prizewinner)
RWA Open
2010 Fringe Mk Open
CUBE (Centre for Urban Built Environment), Manchester
Installations:
2016 - ‘Weymouth/Portland 2012’ hoardings from the installation at Weymouth Railway Station during 2012 Olympics acquired by Dorset County Hospital and sited on entrance tower.
ICCI Dome 2012: Projected images from the Weymouth/Portland Series during concert with Phoria and Nordic Giants
‘Weymouth/Portland 2012’ a commission by b-side Festival, part of the London Cultural Olympiad, at Weymouth Station during the Olympic Sailing and Paralympic Sailing Events 2012
2011/12 The Urban Wastelands Project: a collaboration with Ian Knox, award winning film-maker, and Trans Global Underground, multi-national music group
2008/9 The WaterZones Project: a collaboration with Steve Harris, jazz improvisational composer, and Ian Knox , film-maker.
Recent Reviews and Publications
2017 Art Reveal Blog
Art Reveal interview
2016 The Jackdaw
State Media magazine
Devon Life Magazine
2015 The Oxford Times
Oxford Mail
Fine Times Recorder webzine
2014 Guardian Review
Art Monthly
Isendyouthis – webzine
Aesthetica Art Magazine
2013 Nord Art 2013 catalogue
Aesthetica Art Prize Magazine
Galleries Magazine
2012 Proof/isendyouthis webzine
Bristol Magazine
Country Calling webzine
2011 Proof/isendyouthis; Frome TV; Evolver Arts Magazine
2008 The Spectator; Proof Magazine; The Week; Galleries Magazine
Collections
British Dental Association
St Vincent and the Grenadines Govt. Art Collection
Bournemouth University Art Loan Collection
Hilton Hotel Group
Phillip Morris Inc
ING
R.N.L.I.
WEB LINKS
www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/exhibitions
www.spacex.org.uk/exhibtions/soft-estate-8march-3-may-2014
www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/issue/april-2014 Edward Chell: Soft Estate
http://www.artrevealmagazine.com/edgelands-2017-tour-travels-to-hartlepool/
https://issuu.com/artrevealmagazine/docs/no24/10
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