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Clive Garland

Clive Garland was featured in Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures 2005 and 2007 held at Bloomberg SPACE.

Artist Statement to follow.

‘Mountaineers climb mountains because they are there. Artists make drawings because they are not there’ - Carl Andre

As an artist, I have always questioned what I see, feel, touch, sense; and also to question the validity of drawing, painting and making sculpture. In turn, this made me make sculpture, explore film & video, assemblage, make performances, paint and draw.
Why did I respond to some things and not others?

Asking the questions within a different context led to more questions, some specific, and some general. I have a need to explore and question, to develop and control fluency for an intellectual formulation of an expressive personal visual language.

One needs to analyse a particular

vision
---------
sense

Seeing and comprehending, tempered with a development of critical analysis of results. Being able to look inward and outward to expose a full creative possibility.

This led me to an equation

drawing
-------------------------towards an end
communication


drawing
-------------------------an end in itself
communication

Reciprocally I produced and am still producing work in a series presently ‘Drawing towards communication’ and ‘Sound equivalent’ drawings, which explore space, balance, tension, atmosphere etc… of particular ‘sounds’.

‘Is sound just for our ears and image for our eyes’?

- Clive Garland, 2009

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/drawingfromturner/artists/garland.htm

http://www.ryesocietyofartists.co.uk/CLIVE_GARLAND.html

• ARTfutures 2007

  7th March — 12th March 2007
  Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD

• ARTfutures 2005

  23rd November — 27th November 2005
  Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD

• ARTfutures 2004

  31st March — 4th April 2004
  City of London School Queen Victoria Street, London EC4