Thursday 24 November 2011

BILL CHAMBERS at U.R.B.A.N

Bill Chambers
Exhibition of Prints and Assemblages 10th Dec – 13th Jan 2012
John Frost Square Newport

On Saturday December 17th the Artist will be available to answer questions and will be running printmaking activities open to the public.

The exhibition at U.R.B.A.N Gallery and Art Space,
21-22 John Frost Square
is a first showing of works in progress from a project entitled Hidden Spaces Forgotten Places. The Project is being funded by The Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award with assistance from the Contemporary Textiles Course at Cardiff Metropolitan University and will centre on the urban environment of Newport City centre using new technologies to create a diverse range of artworks. It is due to culminate in an exhibition at The Riverfront Centre in the spring. The development of Bill Chambers’ work in printmaking has often relied in some way on his interest in architecture and new processes so this project is a natural progression of his work to date.




“I am particularly fascinated by the strange nether world of the pedestrian cityscape and those places that are often forgotten, over-looked or simply ignored by people rushing by in their cars. If these places feature in people's imaginations at all they are places of disconnection and displacement, yet they are also places of cathedral like grandeur and spectacular sculptural qualities.”

Bill Chambers was born in Newport, Gwent in 1968. In 1989 he studied Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design before completing his Masters Degree at Chelsea School of Art in 1992. Since then he has lived in Cardiff where he is a member of Old Library Artists Ltd. based at Oriel Canfas Gallery. A committed printmaker, Bill has strong links with Swansea Print Workshop where he is a director and holds regular master classes. He currently works for University of Wales Institute Cardiff as a printmaking technical demonstrator.

The exhibition opens a series of shows created especially for U.R.B.A.N and will continue over Christmas and New Year until 13th January. On Saturday December 17th the artist will be available to answer questions and will be running printmaking activities open to the public.

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