Description
Vorticism was an art movement that broke with the past and expressed the dynamism of the machine age, exploring pattern and geometry as a means to make paintings.
“Starting with drawings of our architectural surroundings, we will develop optical effects by putting together patterns that trigger a confusion in the picture plane. High visual intensity pattern can be used as a device, in this course we will learn how to use it to our own sensibility, which may find subtler overt applications. As a device, pattern, repetition, and decoration can be found in a broad range of painters. From the haunting pure abstraction of Tomma Abts to Gustav Klimt, who uses areas of intensity with figurative paintings as a way of creating density in his work” Vicky Wright
About Vicky Wright
Vicky Wright, Bolton born (1967), makes work that is dense and iconoclastic, overpowering in its purpose and preoccupied with the apparatus of power; labour and mobilisation in the industrial British north, patriarchy and opportunity and the provisional relationship between technology and the planet.
Vicky is a graduate of the RCA (1993) and Goldsmith MFA Fine Art (2008). She has exhibited regularly having solo and group shows in the UK and internationally. Vicky’s five solo shows with the Josh Lilly Gallery London include the most recent ‘Hard-Light Hologram’ in 2020. Group shows include the John Moores Painting Prize, the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, the Jerwood Painting Prize, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie Vienna, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven Germany and the Whitechapel Gallery London. We are delighted to have her teach with us at the ESOP.
Vicky lives and works in London >>> read more >>>
