theARThouse gallery
Solo exhibition of new works by
NELL RACE
A Voice Less Loud
Thursday 3rd to 15th November 2011
22 Post Office Road The Square Bournemouth
www.thearthousegallery.org
A Voice Less Loud
Walking down a grey and cheerless street in SE London, anticipating a distant
glimpse of the Wapping Thames, I passed hoardings up around a derelict
house. A builder, a workman, a dusky soul had passed by with a bucket of
paint, in excess. With jerky movements of the arm he had snappily pelted
paint around the hoardings. He had made one vast, chaotic, dazzling frame
of thick, glossy blobs to the dilapidating house behind. The eyes of the
wooden hoardings peeked out.
The vim within these gobbets of paint had been kindled by an impetuosity.
They were also loaded to the core with zest, spirit, pith, integrity. And maybe
some rage.
The surprise within ordinary things provides rich pickings. I too am always trying
to get rid of the excess paint. Through a slow, often exasperating time of
elimination and extraction I hope to make surfaces, marks, abstract images
that convey something profoundly felt. I would like simply to offer a new leaf.
Nell Race, October 2011
Nell Race studied at the Central School of Art and Design (Central St.
Martins), Wimbledon College of Art and Design and has a BAHons in
Printed Textiles, 1974, from West Surrey College of Art and Design
(University for the Creative Arts).
She has been exhibiting her work since 1974, including many solo shows. Her
work is in collections in the UK, Belgium, France, Greece and the USA.