BIO

My place in the landscape.

A lot of the thoughts and ideas are common. Everybody feels the same things. This is why people have the need to own a house or be reassured in some way.

The work is kind of sketchy because it is unresolved. Each statement can be contradicted. Each mark can be remade a different way.

This work is about vulnerability. Its about just putting something down. Just making like a diary entry.

When I paint I feel something but I don't know what its all about until after, its just some sort of gesture of what I feel about things as they happen. Like still photography in a moving picture world. Its about slowing down the clock and reflecting on the moment.

The work is also about my view of structure. Financial restraints, family religion, basically all of the things in life that you put in pigeon holes, all the things that you try to order or make sense of.

The gestures and the way that the paint is applied is about the emotion towards those things. The energy which is contained within in each mark is almost about frustration and containment as well as fulfillment, so it all lives in the same place. Things of harmony and things of disconnect. Peace and mayhem living in the same landscape.

Colin Pennock 2006


 

Collections

University of Ulster Belfast, Northern Ireland
British Consulate New York, Washington
Brian Sewell Collection Art Critic London
Nigel Havers London
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Collection.

Art Prizes

2008    Finalist Fleurieu Penninsula Water Prize, SA       
2008    Finalist Fleurieu Penninsula Art Prize, SA           
2005    Winner Mosman Alan Gamble Memorial Art Prize       
2004    Finalist Fleurieu Penninsula Art Prize, SA           

Education

St Martins School of Art London 1985 1989
B.A. Hons Degree Fine Art (Painting)
Foundation Art Course

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007    Strata Scott Livesey Galleries Melbourne           
             Light and Sound in the Hawkesbury Michael Reid   
2006    Fragment of the Greater Landscape Scott Livesey
             Galleries, Melbourne                       
2005    Tin Town Art Equity, Barrack Gallery, Sydney      
             Solo A1 + 2 Gallery, Balmain, Sydney           

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009   Christmas Show 2009, Belgravia Gallery, London
2009   Paintings and Objects, curated by David Bromley,
            Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
2008   Group Show 08, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2008   Sum of Us -    Michael Reid, Sydney               
2007   Group show Squared, Greenhill Galleries, Perth       
2005   Group show Delmar Gallery, Sydney Small Wonder   
2004   Group show Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney       
2004   Sydney Affordable Art Fair, Sydney               
            Culture and Conflict Puffin Gallery, Soho, New York
            Featured amongst International artists including:
            Willie Doherty (Turner Prize Winner UK) and Robert
1998   Longo                               
1989   Group show Pages Yard House Gallery, London       
            Group show Hatton Gardens Gallery, London       
            Chelsea Piers Group Show London           
1988   Eight Young Painters in London - London