by Gallery Artplus Administrator
2. March 2010 21:45
Do Least Harm is the solo exhibition of artist Ivan Unwin. Included in his exhibition is a collection of political/ environmental activist works with human rights land abuse issues as subject.
Artist Statement:
After completing the English Art education I had a collection of my atmospheric sculpture based performance art/ film work released via the Manchester, England, Factory Records/ IKON Film label. Titles Flickering Shadows, a well reviewed and acclaimed body of work that opened further funding and many European exhibitions. It also put me in contact with producers of the newly re-invented music video. Consequently for over 10 years I had worked in London UK as an art director for many music artists such as Oasis, Cold Play and Pink Floyd as well as working for many international corporations designing and building the sets for TV Advertising.
The desire to produce my own work was again awoken after the purchase of a small cabin in Scotland, located near the west coast in a remote ancient oak forest. That midge infested rain soaked atmosphere inspired new painted work, a medium that I had not worked with since art school. After the years of creating work at the edge of film and performance art, there is an irony that painting- landscape/ nature, is now for me the new avant guarde, with a central intrinsic question of pure composition, and of colour. I had a painting from this period shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2005.
With a pin a map and the internet we moved to Warkworth Ontario in 2006. I am now starting to tackle new atmospheres with local situations. Many of my works are pure landscape or nature studies but this cannot be detached from a life touched by the anarchic late 70s living in England, music has, and always will be an infulence, so also included in this collection are a set of political/ environmental activist works, with human rights and land abuse as subject.
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Where the Buffalo Roam
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Where the Buffalo Roamed
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Evil
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