Tim Fudge
Schedule
Fri Sep 13 2024 at 10:00 am to Sat Oct 05 2024 at 05:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Albany Gallery | Cardiff, WA
About this Event
Tim Fudge is a time traveller; with Wales in the blood and the Scottish Colourist movement his natural Scottish birthright.
Unafraid of risk, even if that leads to destruction; each piece of Fudge’s work must have integrity. None leaves the studio without it.
Expect bold, sculpted landscapes - and expertly crafted knife use - giving the work a visceral, immediate quality. The viewer is able to experience the landscape in a way that is real - and rare.
Fudge’s work is inspired by the Scottish Colourist Movement; and Joan Eardley’s influence in particular, shines through in his glorious use of colour.
“I’m fired by the contrast of emeralds and Prussian blues of the sea against the cadmium yellows and oranges of lichen, or the intense reds of rowan berries against the blue of the sky.”
His latest exhibition at the Albany Gallery in Roath, Cardiff, is one that has been highly influenced by the weather experienced in the Spring and Summer of 2024.
“Extraordinary, in how wet and cold it has been,” says Tim… “but the flowers are glorious - a riot of wildflower colours”.
Roath’s fertile arts scene stands with Albany Gallery as the original; and the loyalty between artist and gallery is clear.
“I have a long standing relationship with the Albany Gallery, " says Tim. “They have been with me, really, since 1998”.
Fudge’s epic landscapes of wild and coastal rock - something that seems to obsess him in the urgency of the work - is softened by his use of wild flowers and lichen - in such a way as to bring those worldly sensory delights to real-life-like experience.
He was also a child during the ‘hippie invasion’ of west Wales, during the 1960’s and 1970’s - although Fudge's family relocated to the area to farm - he has surely been influenced by those halcyon summers of endless days filled with liquid sunshine and the good life. A desire for something different; more westerly in outlook, than his roots of Scotland and Hull.
Looking out across these wide and almost panoramic skies, kissing the horizon of that shining sea, does he think that it’s possible to time travel whilst admiring these wild and wondrous coasts of Wales? Our eyes look upon shores that have stayed the same for thousands of years… is this a way of connecting us to our past, the present and our future? “For sure. I’ve been a keen student of archaeology and history - I think that has played a big part in the fascination… (of) sitting on top of a cliff looking out across the sea… there’s something primaeval in that.”
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words Meryl Cubley August 2024
Where is it happening?
The Albany Gallery, 74b Albany Road, Cardiff, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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