‘All Is More Is Nothing’ a brand new exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Ian Rayer-Smith launches on 17 March and runs until 18 April 2016 at Screaming Gander, Unit 4, Chips Building, Lampwick Lane, New Islington, Manchester M4 6BU.
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Artist, Ian Rayer-Smith will be launching his latest exhibition on 17 March. Ian will be donating 10% of proceeds from the launch night to George House Trust. Fundraising Manager, Yvonne Hepburn-Foster says, "We are honoured to be supported by Ian, whose mix of talent and passion is evident in the pieces he creates; and we look forward to working with him in the future."
My work is heavily influenced by automatic production and human expression. I explore using the conscious and sub-conscious through the act of making, a constant search for something. I see this as a journey that I hope will never reach its destination. The process of production is the work, whether this be drawing, painting or sculpture. Each piece is a mere calculation to the next step. It evolves through dialogue between each drawing, painting and sculpture feeding into the next. I’m trying to avoid the recreation of something that already exists or even something that I have done before. I strive instead for a continual process of refreshment. I find reassurance from the quote from Richard Diebenkorn when he says “Don’t “discover” a subject — of any kind”.
Obscurity and abstraction play a large role in my work, so that much is left deliberately open to interpretation. Therefore I want the viewer to have some kind of intimate experience from the work, perhaps something resembling the experience I had when making it.
I like surprising myself and creating things that I don't understand. ‘Bad’ painting or an ‘odd’ sculpture that are somehow pleasing, can work without really understanding why. If it is just ‘right’ even though it ‘shouldn't be’, somehow it works. This fascinates me and drives my practice.
I’ve recently returned to working partly in 3D, after several years of pure painting. The reason for this is that although I am constantly drawing for inspiration, I realised that these drawings rarely translated into paintings. The medium of sculpture has therefore allowed me to explore especially since for me sculpture is a form of drawing - another way of searching. I have never shown this work, and I would like to use this opportunity to take a launch pad slot to create an installation of these new 3D pieces as part of the exhibition alongside a number of recent large-scale paintings and drawings that reveal the chaos of process and which create a dialogue between each medium.
As drawing plays a major part in my process, I realised that I have previously too easily overlooked them having thought of them little more than just rough workings or ideas generators. Over time I have come to realise the essential if not pivotal role that they play in my work. I would therefore like to reveal these drawings and display them as an integral part of the installation to contextualise and enhance the viewer’s appreciation of my work.
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