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Education | |
| 2003-2006 |
BA (Hons) Fine Art University of East London London E16 2RD |
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Selected Exhibitions | |
| 03/2008 | Back to the Boondocks (group show) AVA Gallery, University of East London |
| 11/2007 | AF:2012 (group show) 491 Gallery, Leytonstone, London |
| 06/2006 | Fine Art Degree Show (group show) University of East London |
| 12/2005 | Immediately with the Masterful (group show) Ada Street Project, London |
| 10/2004 | Group Show (group show) University of East London |
| 06/2004 | Went The Day Well (group show) Mile End Ecology Pavillion, London |
| 05/2004 | …Br-onze… (group show) University of East London |
| 12/2003 | Fine Art First Year Show (group show) University of East London |
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Artist's Statement Somewhat spontaneous, painterly gestures accompany a considered and meticulous plan, questioning combinations of the undescribed and indescribable, of processes and structure. Introspective, repetitive and typically passive, works exist uninfringing and respectfully silent, yet can seem ambiguously intrusive or inviting; innocent, innocuous or inert. A collection of momentary actions, over an indefinite period of time, works capture a sense of the past, of reflection on life, and are incapable of being purely frozen snapshot moments. Through the use of extensions to the traditional support areas, often prompted by architectural features both existent and invented, the paintings begin to merge with sculpture. Development of physical space enables suggestions of imagined place, whilst refraining from accurately describing it. Whilst connecting the boundaries of painting and sculpture, the works can avoid the necessity to consider narrative as linear and can rely on a sense of 'everything-all-of-the-time'. |
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Reviews "Lee Broughall is a young painter based in Surrey, and a 2006 graduate of the University of East London. His most recently completed series of four large-scale works employ the repeated motif of a misshapen disc floating on either a red or black backdrop. The discs contain blotches and other impurities that are reminiscent of the swirls and patterns of a planet's surface, like the famous Great Red Spot on Jupiter, and the planetary allusion is especially clear in 'Flag', where a three-dimensional Union Jack has been appended to the fiery red surface of the disc, rudely jutting out into the privileged space of the viewer. These are arresting and intelligent paintings. "In three of the works, the disc sits at the bottom, or towards the bottom of the canvas, where it appears to float heavily, and 'Work no. 132' appears particularly ominous: a white blood cell in a sea of red. There is a violence to the handling of the paint throughout these works, which comes in fits, stabs and splashes, and this aspect is enhanced in two of the works by the addition of three-dimensional lettering, reading 'Burns' and 'Boom Boom Room', the latter apparently a piece of club signage or perhaps part of a jukebox. The disc in 'Boom Boom Room' is a sickly pale green, like a monstrous growth, and evinces most clearly Broughall's own brand of painterly abjection. "Iconography aside, Broughall is attuned to other issues in current painting, and places a special emphasis on formal repetition, the notion of the series and, most importantly of all, the process of painting itself, which he finds to be a pressing concern in the work of other influential British painters like Callum Innes. He states: 'For me, the inspiration comes mostly from the act of painting.'" - Bill Roberts "INERT-paintings - via a sensual, repetitive use of materials, actions, Signs + Iconography... The supports he 'litters with incident' are drawers and containers that receive 'daily deposits' that Reflect on the Repetitive nature of work in the studio..." - Alexis Harding |
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| To be compiled over 2007/08. |
