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Norwich exhibition for London record breaking Norfolk Artist
Will Teather: Infinite Perspectives
Norwich Arts Centre exhibition to include unique spherical canvasses
Norwich Arts Centre are to host an exclusive exhibition in June by record breaking Norwich artist Will Teather following his successes in London.
Teather is known for creating images that reveal a unique imagination combined with a mastery of traditional skills. His figurative paintings and drawings often depict curious characters caught up in uncanny situations. His influences are as diverse as Flemish still life, baroque art and Weimar painters, The exhibition will feature selections from his output of wall mounted paintings as well as some of his most recent work which consists of impressively dimensioned spherical canvasses that bring something entirely new and pioneering to the tradition of realist painting.
Teather is also Artist-in-Residence at Norwich Arts Centre. Samples from the work were shown in London at The Other Art Fair in April and at May’s Future Masters show.
Infinite Perspectives consists of three-dimensional paintings on globes and unusually formed canvases that employ an innovative type of inverted perspective, giving a 360° view of a space. Both the perspective and the representation slyly shift, depending on which point you look at them. One globe shows a detailed bookshop interior that reveals different aspects of the shop as it turns. Another is filled with doves in flight; viewed from multiple viewpoints it creates the sensation of being in the centre of the flock as they swoop around.
‘Infinite perspectives is a project that explores new ground in the depiction of space, blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture’ explained Will.
At the 10th anniversary edition of the Other Art Fair (2015) Teather’s first finished globe attracted rave reviews and sold for £10,800, breaking both the fair’s record for a single sale – the first time any sale in the event’s history reached five figures and Will’s personal record and. The spherical painting sold to a collector who owns works by some of the world’s leading artists.
The origins of Teather’s work lie in magical realism. The carnival-esque and a sense of the uncanny are favourite subjects. He wants to create extraordinary visual spectacles through painting. As Teather says, ‘It’s about the relationship between the 2D and the 3D, and about creating something closer to the way we see. Our eyes are spheres and rotate around a space and I wanted to find a way to depict that’. As a lecturer in drawing, he is also interested in contributing to our journey through art history to the present day, and sees perspective as a fundamental part of that journey.
His solo show at Norwich Arts Centre runs alongside the British Art Show 8 at venues across Norwich from 24 June to 4 September.
Will Teather: Infinite Perspectives
A solo exhibition at Norwich Arts Centre
24 June-6 August 2016
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