https://emilybland.co.uk emilybland Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:08:57 +0000 https://emilybland.co.uk en https://emilybland.co.uk/carousel Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:56:16 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/carousel https://emilybland.co.uk/a-recurring-thought Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:08:57 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/a-recurring-thought A Recurring Thought (work in progress) I have had this recurring thought since childhood of a chair in motion. It is more than just a thought, it is an elaborate vision of a complex action, existing exclusively in my imagination. In this vision, a chair is being moved up and down in a nonsensical manner by a mysterious character who is not pictured, but whose actions I feel and visualise. The vision visits me in day dreams, when I am feeling safe and relaxed. It is familiar, precise, repetitive and reliable. However, it has an uneasy side to it – this vision lives by its own rules, a constant loop that exists in impossible physical space. “A recurring thought” is an attempt to understand all angles of this experience: the calmness I enjoy while visualising, the movement of the chair, the sense of impossible physicality, the surrounding area and light sources, the feelings and actions of the person moving the chair, and finally the transition of the scene from the imagined to the canvas.Despite the original recurring thought always being identical, each painting shows a different moment or viewpoint. Sometimes working from sketches of sketches, sometimes fresh from the vision itself. In the earlier paintings most visual elements are abstracted. In the more recent work, the chair becomes recognisable, as I learn to embrace the figurative and allow a truer experience for the viewer. https://emilybland.co.uk/past-collections Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:05:02 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/past-collections https://emilybland.co.uk/2022 Sun, 27 Mar 2022 19:40:27 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2022 https://emilybland.co.uk/2021 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:32:41 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2021 https://emilybland.co.uk/2020 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:50:23 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2020 https://emilybland.co.uk/2019 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:05:47 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2019 https://emilybland.co.uk/2018 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:06:01 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2018 https://emilybland.co.uk/2017 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:45:50 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2017 https://emilybland.co.uk/cv Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:34:29 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/cv <img width="815" height="1080" width_o="815" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4911b64926efb56baee8442296cabf68a2e55a3d8276cc96c8bc14af11a7cff/EmilyBlandStudio.jpg" data-mid="247721292" border="0" data-scale="80" alt="Emily Bland Studio" data-caption="Emily Bland Studio" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/815/i/b4911b64926efb56baee8442296cabf68a2e55a3d8276cc96c8bc14af11a7cff/EmilyBlandStudio.jpg" /> Emily Bland (b. 1988) is a British-French painter, she graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2011 and has been living and working in Berlin since 2012. Solo Shows2021, Built on Fluid Planes – GISELA Freier Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany2020, Visions of My Mind’s Retreats – Nothaft Cafe, Berlin, Germany2018, Weinissage – Facciola, Berlin, Germany2018, Explorations of Stimuli and Structures – Das Giftraum, Berlin, Germany2018, Jovial Strife – Geschwister Nothaft, Berlin, Germany2012, Articulation – Kaleidoskop, Berlin, Germany2012, Painting – Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham, UK2011, Klark – Public spaces, Berlin, Germany2009, Conversation – Sandbar, Manchester, UKGroup Shows 2026, ZEITGENOSSENSCHAFT – Denis Leo Hegic Projects, Berlin, Germany2023, Group show – KA32, Berlin, Germany2022, BAAM 4 – MOOS Space, Berlin, Germany2022, The Sound Bar – Bang &amp; Olufsen, Carl Fritz, Berlin, Germany2022, GIVE ART A CHANCE – HAZE Gallery, Berlin, Germany2022, GOOD STUFF – GISELA Freier Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany2021, L’air de Berlin – Inspiré Azille, Aude, France2021, UNBLOCK fairartfair – Studios ID, Berlin, Germany2021, Lange Nacht der Bilder – Studios ID, Berlin, Germany2020, Online Art Auction – Weserhalle, Berlin, Germany2020, Lange Nacht der Bilder – Studios ID, Berlin, Germany2019, Lange Nacht der Bilder – Studios ID, Berlin, Germany2019, Dissonance – Q Gallery, Berlin, Germany2018, Open Studios ID – Studios ID, Berlin, Germany2018, Lange Nacht der Bilder – Studios ID, Berlin, Germany2017, Submissions – AKA, Berlin, Germany2014, Invertebra – Spirograph, Berlin, Germany2012, NW Graduates 2011 – Neo:Gallery 32, Bolton, UK2011, Manchester Art Crawl – Piccadilly Place, Manchester, UK2011, Manchester School of Art Degree Show, Manchester, UK2009, Untitled – The Chapel, Fallowfield, UK Residencies2011-2012, Artist in Residence – Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham, UK Awards2011, Ken Billany Prize CollectionsMüller Headquarters, Shropshire, UK Education2007-2011, Manchester School of Art, MMU – BA (Hons) Fine Art2006-2007, Blackpool &amp; The Fylde College – BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies: Art &amp; Design