CURRENT MILL EXHIBITION
IN THE DAVID WEST GALLERY

'THROUGH DARKNESS'

An exhibition of abstract art by

Camilla Nock

Open Tuesday to Sunday
(and Easter Monday)
11:00am - 4:00pm
 

The Exhibition runs from
27 February - 18 April 2010

Admission Free

Camilla Nock's work uses minimal images to introduce the idea of an abstract icon not represented by a physical image; it has coded complexity in fine mark making upon the scarred canvas territory. In this exhibition Camilla is showing new work that engages with ritual landscape.

Commenting on her work she states…

'Darkness exists as a conceptual space within a landscape and relates to lost time and forgotten presence.  The physical experience of place will fade with time leaving only traces and tangible shadows.’

'Without the use of narrative plot or subject the work uses minimal images to introduce the idea of an abstract icon not represented by a physical image. The Bedouins say that Allah took away from the dessert everything superfluous leaving only the essential for the mind to meditate upon. This is an important aspect that reduction of detail intensifies perfection. Repetition is not progress, but it generates enormous power creating an enormous energy flow.'

Camilla Nock, RWA, is an artist and art lecturer. She lives in Honiton, Devon.

Camilla studied at Cheltenham College of Art, Southampton University and took her postgraduate degree at Goldsmiths College in London. She has lectured in Salisbury Teacher Training College, Southend School of Art and Bristol University. She has shown her work extensively at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, Beaux Arts Bath, the Gordon Hepworth Gallery in Devon and London and the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. She has exhibited with the Contemporary Arts Council in 1994, with The London Group at the Barbican in 1995.

She became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists in 1996 and the same year her work was selected by that institution as 'critics choice'. Her work was included in the 1997 'Festival of Lights' in St Ives and also in the 1999 Royal West of England Painting Exhibition. She was a prizewinner at Millfield in 1994 and was the runner up of the South West Arts painting competition for two years in 1994 and 1997. She was the winner of the 2001 Arts Council Award for painting for the South West.

Her work is included in the Talboys Bequest at the RWA and in the collections of Citroen, France, Viscount Weymouth, Ominate Ltd, Japan and other private collections.

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