For me
the act of painting for painting's sake is pointless, it is the
potential to release 'new life' from the material that is more important,
to communicate deeper levels of understanding and perception that
is challenging.
I create translucent abstract spaces for the mind and eye to enter,
move around in and interact with. In search of greater potential
I developed a sheer 'hot pressed' board that allows me to explore
more complex possibilities in line, tone, form, space and colour.
Sea, mountains, wild open spaces and the architecture of prehistory
charges my work as does the poetry of TS Eliot and RS Thomas. The
'RS Thomas Triptych' exhibited here evolved from a long period of
fascination with his poetry and attempts to realise the man. The
Triptych was requested by the Welsh Academy in Cardiff as the visual
focus of the celebration to commemorate his work in 2001.
Terry Duffy was born in Liverpool in 1948 and received a scholarship
to Liverpool Art School at the age of 13. Later worked as photo-lithographer
in London. In 1975 graduated from Liverpool college of art where
he had the opportunity to work on projects with Joseph Beuys and
John Cage. In the 1975 and 76 New Contemporaries London he experimented
with then radical issues in Live Art and later exhibited at the
ICA, 'European Artist' Stuttgart and later worked with Roy Adzak
in Paris.
In the 80s he received major Arts Council awards, exhibited throughout
UK as well as New York and Philadelphia. In 1984 he created Arena
Studios Liverpool. In the early 90s he was included in the Hunting
Observer Prizes and the John Moores and was in 1992 the British
Council Fine Art Professor in Budapest.
He is included in many National and International collections with
media coverage including Studio International, Guardian, Times,
Independent, Art Review, Channel 4 and BBC World News. Has an experimental
art space in Shoreditch London and studio on the Wirral.
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