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WoW Paintings: Alexander James Pollard
No full textWoW Paintings is a catalogue/publication/book featuring new paintings and text works by Alexander James Pollard published by the University of Brighton. The book was produced to document a public exhibition titled WoW Paintings :P held at Young Team HQ Gallery, London. A project space organised by Linsey Young (Curator of the Tate Gallery, London). The show took place 26th March - 17th April 2016
WoW Paintings :P by Alexander James Pollard
No full textWoW Paintings :P was a visual art exhibition featuring new paintings and a text work by Alexander James Pollard curated by Linsey Young. The exhibition was exhibited at Young Team HQ Gallery, London - A project space organised by Linsey Young (Curator of the Tate Gallery, London). The show took place 26th March - 17th April 2016. The WoW paintings were displayed with a fictional email conversation between the artist and the manager of a Chinese "painting factory" in Xiamen where the World of Warcraft imagery (swords) were painted. This fictional correspondence playfully examines the notion of "collaboration" between artisan and artist. The works are born out of technological networks and digital "inter-connectivity" yet the repeated mantra of the sword refers as much to mythical swords of old folklore, such as Excalibur. As we move further and further into the digital we become more and more captivated by the mythic potential of art
Elizabeth A. Pollard Oral History
No full textThe original manuscript transcript of this interview is available in University Archives Oral History Collection in the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.This interview was conducted as part of the College of William and Mary Oral History Project. Mrs. Pollard was married to Charles Pollard, the son of Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard.College of William and Mar
Paleo Fauvism by Alexander James Pollard
No full textHOP Projects CT20 is proud to present Paleo Fauvism, a collection of recent paintings by Alexander James Pollard. The title of the show points directly to the playful marriage of Fauvism and Paleo Art, rupturing established narratives associated with Modern painting in a truly positive and imaginative manner.Painted over a 12-month period in his east London studio the works reveal his desire to reconnect with a “clairvoyant” painting first explored by the artist as a pupil at the Brighton Steiner School in the nineteen eighties. Rudolf Steiner believed that painting could provide a gateway to something more than just a simple message. The methods associated with clairvoyant painting can be loosely described as a form of wet on wet painting, allowing the artist to intuitively tease out an image without having a rigid plan or relying too heavily on outlines or linearity to define forms.Pollard transfers this wet on wet or alla prima technique from water colour (used universally in Waldorf Steiner Schools) to oils, exploring mythic and archetypal imagery that echoes repetitious and ritualistic art from varying time periods and histories within World painting.A face, a Dinosaur, savannah animals, a fictional creature or hyperstitional objects such as the Piltdown Man skull emerge through an alchemical and experimental process, allowing the artist to draw new associations between seemingly disparate references and forms, moving elegantly between figuration and abstraction.Pollard paints with elan, choosing to weave imagery relating to mythic subjects such as the Beast of Bevendean, the Australian Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) and the ever-present cultural symbol of the Dinosaur together as magical archetypes that ultimately ask us to reconsider the role and potential of myth in contemporary society.The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of public workshops entitled, ‘The Clairvoyance of Painting’, as well as a publication that will be released later in the year. The book will feature a full-length interview with curator Linsey Young (Tate Gallery) and an essay exploring some of the themes and ideas within the exhibition by Dr Craig Staff (Reader at University of Northampton)
Where's My Sugar?
No full textTwo paintings by Alexander James Pollard featured in this group exhibition. The works were a continuation of Pollard's investigation into the presence of mythic representation within contemporary digitally sourced imagery
Aleister Crowley and Charles Dawson::The Order of the Dawn Man by Luke Pendrell and Alexander James Pollard
No full textAleister Crowley and Charles Dawson: The Order of the Dawn Man is a theory-fiction narrative and series of fictioned collaborative collages/paintings “authored” by Aleister Crowley and Charles Dawson (creator of Piltdown Man) but realised or “fictioned” by Pendrell and Pollard. The collaborative collages/paintings the duo have produced imagine the Piltdown Man skull as a hyperstitional portal which activates a supersensible realm “unthought”. Significantly the text was written after the paintings were produced, allowing for the materials and process to guide the text into intuitive and unchartered new worlds.<br/
Three Works by Alexander James Pollard
No full textThree paintings were displayed with a fictional email conversation between the artist and the manager of a Chinese "painting factory" in Xiamen where the World of Warcraft imagery (swords) were painted. This fictional correspondence playfully examines the notion of "collaboration" between artisan and artist. The works are born out of technological networks and digital "inter-connectivity" yet the repeated mantra of the sword refers as much to mythical swords of old folklore, such as Excalibur. As we move further and further into the digital we become more and more captivated by the mythic potential of art
ASP 4::Artist's Self-Publishing Fair
No full textASP is an artist self-publishing fair held annually at the ICA, London. For ASP the artists Alexander James Pollard and Luke Pendrell will be collaborating on hand-tinted/painted prints based on Henry Thomas De La Beche’s well-known Victorian dinosaur prints. Rather than making their "own" work, Pendrell and Pollard will paint as "implied authors", fictioning an imaginary painterly collaboration between south coast legends Aleister Crowley and Charles Dawson (creator of the Piltdown Man). These new works will be shown alongside other self-published works and ephemera
Aleister Crowley and Charles Dawson: The order of the dawn man
No full textLuke Pendrell & Alexander James Pollard feat. (Dawson, Crowley) from PILTDOWN A∴A∴ CNRONAZON CHRONICLES, produced by: LUDD PÚCA. An excavated sonic collage, haunted by the ghosts of occultist Aliester Crowley and Edwardian Archeologist as they collude to construct a magical sigil a prehistoric homunculus, the Dawn Man
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