< ﷯ 나일 크레이븐 Niall Craven
Untitled (Forest), 40x30cm, Oil on Panel, 2021
Pissenlet_Oil on Canvas_61x73cm_2020 [Artist Note] My work has, for a longtime, been focussed on the human body and our relationship we have to it. Recently I have been turning my attention to the effects our surroundings have on us, in various sensory and emotional aspects. In the coming year I plan to continue this inquiry. My most recent work has been intensely personal, drawing on my own body and environment to produce work that exposes my own anxieties, preoccupations and emotions. The studio provides a safe place for me to follow these strands in my work, a private place away from the scrutiny and judgement of other people. Taking a work out of the studio and exhibiting it is an act of trust. The development and exhibiting of more personal works gives this act of exhibition more meaning to me. This is what I want to explore for this exhibition, the act of taking a work from the studio and everything that it encompasses, for the artist and for the viewers. Works that might otherwise remain in the studio are often deemed ‘failures’ or are too deeply personal to be shown to an audience, but this kind of work, which my paintings often follow, is sometimes more intense than the kind of work I show to others. My work in the past has often avoided the personal, instead taking a more general approach to my subjects. Inthefuture I wish to inject my work again with this intimate, personal meaning. [Education] 2014 Newcastle University, Bachelor of Fine Art [Solo Exhibitions] 2019 Cheongju Art Bazaar, Pop-up Exhibition, Cheongju, Dosi_Rock International Art Show, Gallery Hwal, Seoul 2017 Confrontation, Gallery 17717, Seoul Walking Future, The Cheong-ju Art Studio, Cheongju Pins and Needles, The Cheong-ju Art Studio, Cheongju 2015 타인의 삶을 만나다, 충북문화관숲속갤러리, Cheongju 2014 Newcastle University Final Exhibition, Hancock Gallery, Newcastle <