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Featured Artist: Charlie Dutton
Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK, 1973, Charlie Dutton achieved a BA (hons) in Fine Art and a Postgraduate in Photography, both at Central St Martins, London. His main practice is alternative photographic and paint techniques. He has exhibited in various shows in London and internationally, and back in the early ’10s co-founded (with an earlier version of Irresistible) The Charlie Dutton Gallery in London. He currently is running another gallery and art centre in Beijing, BACA, as well as teaching.
Fundamentally his work and ideas are taken from non-visual orientation and perception, related to constructs of Phenomenology, such as the human reactions to our surroundings; describing it as the “in-between senses”. His interest concerns the connections between abstractions, media, layers, texture and imperfections. “I’d like the viewer to touch the work with their eyes.”
Materials and the process of making are central to his objectives and interests in the poetic nature of combining layers and the juxtaposing of material as metaphor, urban reality and gestural landscape.
Whist in Beijing he has been developing new ideas with light sensitive materials such as Cyanotype, Chemigrams and Photograms, interested in how the art becomes physical as well as a poetic recorder for its surroundings. UV sensitive paint such as Cyanotype being exposed to the sun, therefore automatically the work becomes a heterogeneous part of our environment.
Here we are presenting two series of works: Tension and Scholar Stone. Both of these series have been exhibited in Beijing and some of the works from the series are now in private and Government collections.
These new work of abstracted landscape uses paint on cyanotype to explore the intersection of global geopolitical tensions. Dutton seeks to convey the complex relationship between art histories, politics and how it impacts our landscapes and cultural narrative. By layering paint on top of the photographic images using cyanotype, he is able to create a sense of depth and texture that represents the intricate layers of history and culture that shape these landscapes.
Asian culture past and present provide inspirations from urban landscapes and historic paintings such as ‘A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains’ by Wang Ximeng and most recently Gongshi (Scholar Stones) and Sakura. Traditionally, Chinese landscapes are not usually real places but imaginary, idealized landscapes; mountains are associated spiritually as they reach up towards the heavens and unworldly forms. It’s believed that looking at paintings of mountains is good for the soul. The abstracted form of these landscapes and Scholar Stones are deconstructed through digital manipulation, worlds can be identified, whether spiritual, academic or in his case taking on a pure abstracted form and relating it to contemporary phenomenological thoughts, human control and art history linked to abstract expressionism. Using urban florescent and neon colours, layered with confusion, chaos emerges, something that is the very opposite to the controlled, restrained and subtle colours of the Chinese Masters. This is China as it is now. IExciting, global, fast, confused, influential, layered and transient. Dutton doesn’t see his work as cultural appropriation, just the landscape we live in, which is a globalised digital landscape, however hard countries try to have a singular national identity. The digital age influences everything and now these landscapes are non geographical.
Ultimately, his work aims to challenge viewers to consider the impact of tensions in the world around us, and to see the beauty and complexity of these landscapes from a new perspective.
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Tension Landscape 16
35 x 45 cm
Oil, Acrylic, Spray & Cyanotype on Canvas
$1250
Tension Landscape 5
35 x 45 cm
Oil, Acrylic, Spray & Cyanotype on Canvas
$1250
Tension Landscape 8
35 x 45 cm
Oil, Acrylic, Spray & Cyanotype on Canvas
$1250
Tension Landscape 32
35 x 45 cm
Oil, Acrylic, Spray & Cyanotype on Canvas
$1250
Scholar Stone
Work on Paper
No. 7
57 x 76cm
Cyanotype, Acrylic, Ink, Spray Paint
$1650
Scholar Stone
Work on Paper
No. 12
57 x 76cm
Cyanotype, Acrylic, Ink, Spray Paint
$1650
Scholar Stone
Work on Paper
No. 16
57 x 76cm
Cyanotype, Acrylic, Ink, Spray Paint
$1650
Scholar Stone
Work on Paper
No. 9
57 x 76cm
Cyanotype, Acrylic, Ink, Spray Paint
$1650
Scholar Stone
Work on Paper
No. 13
57 x 76cm
Cyanotype, Acrylic, Ink, Spray Paint
$1650
Scholar Stone
Work on Paper
No. 14
57 x 76cm
Cyanotype, Acrylic, Ink, Spray Paint
$1650
