byard art

Byard Art

Selected Group Exhibitions (most notable)

2005	Affordable Art Fair, London (Byard Art)
2004	Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Devon Byard Art, Cambridge
2003	PAVE Group Show, Seven Worchester Terrace, Bath Ernst and Young Art Event 2003, Bristol The Media Centre, Great Titchfield St., London ‘Winter Ritual’, Houseroom Contemporary Art, Bath
2002	The Regional Designer Makers Exhibition, Hotbath Gallery, Bath
2001	‘Blink’, Hotbath Gallery, Bath
1999	Fringe Art Central, Bath Fringe Festival ‘99 First Sight Galleries, Bath & Bristol Millennium Exhibition, Hotbath Gallery, Bath
1998	Ariel Centre, Totness, Devon Hotbath Gallery, Bath
1997	School House Open Art Exhibition, Bath
1996	‘Tout le Monde’, Vevey, Switzerland
1995	‘Boundaries’, Sussex Open Art, Brighton Museum The 1995 Kent Open, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery The Genolac Arts Festival, Genolac, France ‘Pantheon’, Bear Cave Gallery, Brighton
1994	The Art Show, Alexander Palace, London The Arundel Festival Trail ’94, West Sussex First Light Gallery, Brighton – solo show ‘Hungry for Art’, Mall Galleries, London
1993	Meeting House Gallery, London – solo show Brighton Festival Fringe Expo, Brighton Arts Index ‘Making Strokes’, part of Taking Liberties Art Festival, Brighton Brighton Artists Gallery

Background

1996 –1997 FAETC, City of Bath College
1985 – 1988 BA Hons degree, University of Brighton
1983 – 1985 Foundation in Art, South Devon College

Publications and Broadcasts

2003 B Magazine, February edition
2001 ‘Blink: Painting in the 21^st Century’ (Catalogue)
2001 Guardian Newspaper, Picks of the week, Exhibitions, Nov 12^th
1995 Brighton Evening Argus, Feb 16^th
1994 Express Newspaper, May 14^th
1994 Film profile screened during the Brighton Festival 1994
1994 Interview Broadcast, BBC Radio Sussex
1993 Punter Magazine, November edition

Prizes and Awards

2001 University of Hertfordshire, Best overall performance

2002 Society of Designer Craftsmen, Distinction Licentiate

2004 Society of Designer Craftsmen, MSDC

2004 Arts Council of England Grant

Commissions

1998 Poster Commission, Bath Fringe Festival

1994 SUNFLOWERS – two paintings commissioned by Elizabeth Arden

1993 ‘The Sea, The Sea’ – commissioned by Brighton Council

“The process of landscape painting mirrors the construction of the landscape itself. It shifts between order and disorder; structure and chaos; meaning and accident; in a state of constant flux. The narrative produced by paint, substance and mark reflects these ambiguities within its physical execution. The finished piece is arrived at via a process of deconstruction, taking photographic reference and running it through a series of enlargements by computer or photocopier until the image is randomly pixelated and transformed. This element of chance introduces suggestions for composition, mark and colour and acts as a visual starting point in the painting process. Something that appears recognisable may be constructed from a series of random marks and something apparently random may become recognisable. In this sense the work operates and plays with the boundary lines of what is real and what is imagined.”

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