Neil Weerdmeester
My work records an act of gesture and a chance encounter where imagination begins and the process of creativity takes over. It sits between the real and the unreal recalling past memories and desires it is consciously painterly drawing attention to the tradition of abstraction and reflection and offers a chance to engage outside of the brief encounter of the world wide web, twitter and sound bite. The works share a common archive of a Super 8 Polaroid past and A contemporary digital society their complex surfaces and ambiguity invite the viewer into further investigation drawing them ever closer to examine the very act of painting in a futile attempt to create order out of disorder. Beauty in an age of digital manipulation they unravel a new source of ideas, a chance encounter with each opening a new beginning, imagination without resolution, image without text, a reality which we can neither see nor describe but one which we know exists. My work examines the role of art in creating meaning and challenges the passive consumption aesthetics of consumerism drawing links between the history of painting and the role of politics and media in a society obsessed and without critique of the ecstasy of communication.
Neil Weerdmeester
Address Studio
99 Manor Park Unit 5
London SE13 5RQ Leegate
Tel 07714460778
www.neilweerdmeester.co.uk London SE128SS info@neilweerdmeester.co.uk
Education
1993-4 Winchester School of Art MA European Fine Art ( Barcelona )
1982-6 Reading University Ba(hon’s) Fine Art
1981-2 Dartington College of Arts
Awards
Ray Finnis Post Graduate Award
BMW M.A Scholarship
Stowells Trophy
Selected Exhibitions
2023 The London Group at Scarborough 1st 30th April
2023 Linden Hall Studios Deal Kent
2023 Bankside Gallery London
The London Group and invited Artist Shoreham Sculpture Trail
Personal Relations Touring Show London The Hague and Vicenza
Contemporary British Artists Get Living London Foyer Programme & Olympic Park
Cello Factory London
Houghton Hall Norfolk
Foremans Smokehouse Gallery Hackney London
Hammersons Artist Initiative 125 Old Broad Street London
APT Gallery Creekside London
Mauger Modern Art Bath
2015
Mark Jason Gallery London
Hackney Wicked Open Studios London
London Art Fair Sarah Myerscough Fine Art London
British Council Barcelona
Mottisfont Abbey Hampshire
2014
Deutche Bank London
Cafe Gallery Projects Southwark Park London
Southampton City Art Gallery
Arti et Amicitiae Annual Exhibition Amsterdam
Sarah Myerscough Gallery London and Toronto Art Fair Canada
Pitzhanger Manor Gallery London
Currently employed as p/t lecturer visiting artist and specialist arts policy advisor on innovation and inclusion in the Arts steering group ( Arts Council England )
