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Adam Rawlinson
Adam is collaborating with VA artist Terry Williams, exploring practices and making new work with Venture Arts Colab programme.
Adam Rawlinson
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss 2023
Adam Rawlinson
Untitled 2023
Adam Rawlinson
Its Nice To Be Alive
Adam Rawlinson
Adam Rawlinson
Untitled
Rawlinson is an abstract painter working primarily in oils. His practice is underpinned by research into Lichens. He takes interest in their often-unnoticed and underappreciated significance within our ecology, highlighting the extent of our vital relationship with everything that makes up life on earth.
He uses this as a basis for philosophical enquiry, leaning upon existentialism and phenomenology to explore what it means to be ‘alive’ while pursuing an investigation into our place within the world around us, focusing on both the individual and collective experience.
Alluding to natural environments in his large-scale paintings, Rawlinson uses abstraction as a vehicle to examine and explore the ineffable within nature, through a particular emphasis on mark making and how the materiality of the paint and its application can communicate these ideas. By building up an image, through a range of painterly techniques, he manipulates the act and experience of looking, placing the viewer in a position, both physically and metaphorically, to give life to his paintings.
His works are spaces of contemplation, where people come face to face with paintings that encourages reflection, of which confronts and challenges existing human behaviours.
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Adam Rawlinson's exhibitions and events
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Manchester Open Exhibition 2024
HOME Gallery Manchester
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The Manchester Contemporary 2023
Manchester Convention Central Convention Centre
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OFFSET 2023
First Etch Glasgow, The Alchemy Experiment
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Abstract Art 2023
Brick Lane Gallery, London
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Places We Live 2023
The Herbarium, Lancaster
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Celebration of Creativity 2023
Victory Spud Film Premier, Peckham, London
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We are delighted when people want to commission work from us and our artists. This can either be as a group project or an individual artist creating one of their unique pieces for you.
To find out more and to arrange a studio visit please contact Katherine Long on 0161 232 1223 or email katherine@venturearts.org
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