{"id":2366,"date":"2013-03-01T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2013-03-01T19:02:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T19:02:53","slug":"david-gledhill-what-i-painted-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/2366\/david-gledhill-what-i-painted-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVID GLEDHILL: What I Painted and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until my mother died I had never worked from photographs. The static one-eyed perspective of the camera had always seemed to disqualify them as source material for paintings, even if I had wanted to.\u00a0 I studied art at a University in the late 1970\u2019s, when televisions, wall texts and performance art bulked out the programmes of public galleries and shows by living painters were a rarity.\u00a0 Nevertheless I still believed in painting as a sustained and rigorous interrogation of the visible world in the pursuit of an underlying physical or social structure that was in some sense \u2018true\u2019 or \u2018real\u2019. This was a conviction I had bought in wholesale from those I considered to be the last exponents of serious figurative painting: David Bomberg, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. Using photographs was cheating.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TO READ THIS ARTICLE, CLICK HERE: <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/What-I-Painted-And-Why.pdf\">&#8216;What I Painted And Why&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">David Gledhill has been a professional artist since graduating in 1981, when he won first prize in the Mid Wales Open. He has exhibited widely both in the UK and abroad including Frankfurt, Berlin, Milan and Brussels and is represented by Philips Art Gallery. He is a senior lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Bolton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">In addition to his activity as an artist David has contributed writing and reviews to numerous artist projects and publications. He is co-administrator of Rogue Artists Studios in Manchester, the largest artists studios in the North of England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">His current work centres on the use of both personal and institutional photographic archives to produce sequences of paintings that address historical and political themes through the lived experience of their subjects. He was recently awarded a Cornerhouse (Manchester) commission to produce a film about his work with an East German family photograph album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Works in the collections of East Sussex County Council, Rank Xerox, Halliwell&#8217;s, Touchstones Rochdale and Steven Berkoff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidgledhill.co.uk\/\">www.davidgledhill.co.uk\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until my mother died I had never worked from photographs. 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