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Alan Rankle, Untitled (Herne Study II) Oil, pigmented inkjet on canvas 66x88cm
Alan Rankle born in 1952 is an artist and curator whose work explores historical, social and environmental issues informed by his interest in the evolution of landscape art. Since his first exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London in 1973 while still a student at Goldsmiths College, he has worked variously in painting, video, photography, printmaking, architectural intervention and curating, through a series of international exhibitions and commissions.
Retrospective surveys of his work have been presented at Gallery Oldham in 2006 and Fondazione Stelline, Milan in 2010 where he also began his critically acclaimed series of collaborative exhibitions On the Edge of Wrong with the artist Kirsten Reynolds. Recent projects include curating the exhibition Axis: London Milano for Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan with Claudia De Grandi and a prize winning immersive installation Riverside Suites at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester in collaboration with the designer Veronica Givone and AFK Architects. His work was featured in the 2017 Southampton City Art Gallery exhibition and book, Capture the Castle showing landscape artists from Turner to the present day. 2018 saw the presentation of two major commissions Not Dark Yet for the Grand Hotel in Nuremberg and Prague Suite for Intercontinental in Prague.
Alan Rankle’s works are featured in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide including: Southampton City Art Gallery; Hastings Museum & Art Gallery; Gallery Oldham, Manchester; Bankside Museum, Halifax; The Atkinson Museum; Southport; Museé de Montsegur, France; Fondazione Stelline, Milan; Collezione Vento, Milan; Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery; Stellar Art Foundation, London; Bain Capital, London; PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ London; Marriott Opera, Paris and The House of St. Barnabas Collection, London.
June Frickleton, Coire Gabhail (The Hidden Valley, Glencoe) XIX, Oil on canvas 100x120cm, £1600
I am attracted to places with a strong sense of history. It is impossible to visit these places without imagining what has happened there. Immersing oneself in the landscape and feeling the weight of what has gone before can be a very powerful and emotional experience. It is this that I try to convey in my paintings, rather than a literal depiction of the landscape.
The Glencoe works were made in response to walking in The Hidden Valley, Glencoe.
June Studied for a BA(HONS) Drawing & Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and graduated in 2001, she then won a British Council Scholarship to spend a Postgraduate year at The Academy of Fine Art, Budapest. Following this she completed an MA In Barcelona and Winchester at Winchester School of Art, this was followed by an Arts Management Certificate from Sussex University. As well as being a practicing artist June is Director and Chief Curator of Frickleton Fine Art whose clients include Prologis and Cripps LLP.
June Frickleton, Coire Gabhail (The Hidden Valley, Glencoe) XXII, Oil on canvas 90x90cm, £1250
Patrick O’Donnell, Highland Fling I, Oil on canvas, 60x50cm
Patrick is interested in the notion of transition between real and metaphorically constructed space, the boundaries and opacities of colour, line and edge and the subsequent effects when they meet, merge or dissolve. Working in a reductive and non figurative manner offers him the freedom to filter a variety of inspirations, ideas and experience through exploring the relationships of simple formal elements. A major consideration of his work over the last decade takes inspiration from details of his immediate environment, domestic settings and places of personal connection, with glimpses of intersections that commonly appear more in our peripheral vision now taking centre stage as the impetus for his compositions. He works in a variety of formats in 2 and 3 dimensions and his practice oscillates between painting and printmaking, both processes increasingly important in how they are informing each other.
Patrick lives and works in Brighton and he has exhibited across the UK and Europe.
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