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Lloyd Durling

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Born in Solihull, Lloyd Durling lives and works in London and is represented by Golden, Chicago.

Solo exhibitions include Assembly space, Chapter, Cardiff (25 Feb 25 - 8 May 2011), Laughter Staggers On, Golden, Chicago (2010) and Somewhere Better Than This, Pippy Houldsworth, London (2006). He has a solo exhibition at Chateau de Sacy, Picardy, France in September 2011.

In 2008 Durling exhibited with Mermaid and Monster at the Contemporary Art Society offices as part of the Rotate programme.

Durling's work is included in collections including the Whitworth Art Gallery & Museum, Manchester; Progressive Art Collection, USA; Nomura Bank, Japan and Fidelity PLC, London.

The modestly sized drawings are made from an innumerable amount of strokes that form a field not dissimilar to thin washes of paint. Through these semi-botanic surveys, modern imagery is matched by the chosen medium of oil and felt-tip pen. Here the works recreate waves of fluidity, with textures that appear to shimmer. The works form a refreshing take on contemporary drawing practice by utilizing this basic approach to create complex compositions. Presented are semi-abstract plant forms with associations that shift between ideas around good and evil and nature’s concealment. At times, nature disguises itself as harmless but harbours potential toxins, and like the fly warrants itself into the trap, so do we unwittingly take a chance.

The drawings are derived from typical carnivorous plants, such as pitcher plants, using the pitfall, flypaper and snap trap methods to attract and ensnare their prey. These playful and suggestive works on paper echo underlying themes such as opposites, where there is relational play between negative and positive space by employing the use of the silhouette. The system of communication established between artist, object and viewer relies on transient relationships between narrative, mark making and meaning. Incorporating colour, pattern, form and above all texture, each drawing’s explicit narrative is replaced with combinatory relationships.
- Lloyd Durling, 2011

http://www.chateaudesacy.com/news/e_news.php

http://www.chapter.org/21696.html

http://golden-gallery.org/artwork/1446491_June_18_July_24_2010.html

http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/media/uploads/2010/08//4979/lloyd-durling-golden-press-release-pdf.pdf

http://www.mermaidandmonster.com

• Mermaid and Monster

  16th September — 29th January 2009
  Contemporary Art Society 11 — 15 Emerald Street, London. WC1N 3QL

• The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester: Sweet Dis/order

  1st April — 12th August 2010
  Whitworth Art Gallery The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL