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Andre Stitt at Leeds College of Art
ANDRE STITT in the WEST PRIVATE VIEW THURSDAY 30th May 5.00pm - 7.00pm Leeds College of Art, Blenheim Walk, Leeds LS29AQ "My recent work reflects a concern with the visual codification of post-colonial landscapes, and inhabited futures. Paint is utilised as a synthetic transmitter of experience that reflects the historical uncertainty of place and proposes contemporary genre painting as a transformative medium with redemptive potential. These paintings aspire to a condition of association and evocation rather than representation. As such, they occupy a liminal space that might be defined as ambiguous abstraction. This often reveals itself as a searching out of small elusive moments and unconscious dilemmas that may implicate us in a larger communal, collective or indeed; cosmological narrative." André Stitt was born in Belfast in 1958. He studied at Belfast College of Art & Design 1976-1980 and he is currently Professor of Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design. His work has been included in group exhibitions at a range of spaces including PS1, New York; Venice Biennale 2005; Baltic Contemporary Art Centre; Bangkok Art & Culture Centre; NRLA Glasgow and Galerie Lehtinen, Berlin. Among his many solo exhibitions are shows at Chapter, Cardiff; The Drawing Centre, New York; Artspace, Sydney, Australia; Spacex Gallery, Exeter; The Lab, New York and St Paul St. Gallery Auckland, New Zealand 2011. In 2008 he was awarded a major Creative Wales Award to develop his painting practice.