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Rowan Bazley
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I am an artist born in London. I studied at the Royal Drawing School (2018-19) under Sophie Charalambous, I then was taught by Graham Lister at The Glasgow School of Art (2019-22), took part in the Conditions Studio Programme (2023-24), headed by Matthew Noel-Tod and David Panos and this year I have been tutored by Neal Tait at Turps Studio Programme.
I came of age in the particular conditions of financial crash Conservative England, but my work speaks as much to the places that can be travelled to while dreaming in the studio as it does to nihilism. I aim to depose the ideas of the artist as an individual, and of the artwork as a masterpiece.
My paintings are to be shown as a constellation of thoughts, which viewed together constitute a kind of consciousness. This experience aims to simulate the feeling of a thought spiral, or rhizome, with each idea being an antithesis to the last.
Works by my most admired painters (
sillman
,
krebber
,
althoff
,
friedman
at the moment) would do the same when placed together in this way.
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