| Born in 1960 Chambers is one of the most original painters of his generation. His work is characterised by distinctive imagery, seductively beautiful colour and intricate pattern. In 1983 Chambers graduated from Chelsea College of Art with an M.A. and won a Rome Scholarship. Since then he has won many other prizes and awards including a fellowship at Kettle's Yard/Downing College Cambridge and a Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Travelling Award. In 2005 he was elected as a Royal Academician. In his catalogue introduction, Andrew Lambirth writes 'His painting style is notable for its crisp delineations and captured pools of colour. Here a maculate fox pauses against fulgent red, there a quorum of gallant jugs assembles before a breath-taking blue. Chambers is a dab hand at mental and visual provocation, and unafraid of making something unfashionably beautiful. He explores and celebrates the world with panache.' New paintings, screenprints and etchings will be shown alongside prints selected from the past 10 years.
Tavs Jørgensen, a nominee for the Bombay Sapphire Glass Award 2008, will be exhibiting his new innovations in glass and ceramics. On show will be glass bowls which appear to float - fluid shapes, which defy our expectations of how glass can be, and ceramic bowls which also have a distinctive purity of design. Jorgensen's latest range of work is based on a process where lines can be drawn in mid-air and used to create artifacts. Using pioneering digital equipment, his focus is to retain the dexterity of the hand as the main conduit of expression in the creative process. Jørgensen is Research Fellow of the Autonomatic Research Cluster, University College Falmouth, experimenting with digital tools within craft, design and art practice. He also teaches part-time at the Ceramic & Glass Department of the Royal College of Art, London.
Ana Maria Pacheco, one of the foremost figurative artists of her generation, work was shown at The Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives. Throughout her career her sculpture, paintings, prints and drawings have confronted the human experience. Her images create an intense and sometimes witty world which reference classical literature, the Bible, photography, film, the sensual and the spiritual. The animals and birds in her Bestiary screenprints speak to us of contemporary, political and ecological issues.
Michael Porter’s exhibition An Image of Place – Recent Works on Paper was the first solo exhibition to be held upstairs at the newly refurbished Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives and the first time his work has been shown in Cornwall since his exhibition at Tate St. Ives in 2001. Living and working in Newlyn, Cornwall, Porter uses the ground of the coastline around him as inspiration for his intimate and intricate paintings of the world at his feet. Immediately attractive, the works draw us in to orientate ourselves within his layers of floating surfaces.
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