The Street Art Exhibition, Surface’s most popular event of the year, was finally launched on Friday 11th August, celebrating local and independent artists from across Nottingham.
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‘Platform’ has been my first residency, and I’ve been lucky to work alongside Ryan and Miklos in the Project Space at Surface. I began with an idea of making a series of paintings, though I found that I wasn’t happy with the result. After an enlightening one-to-one critique with Yelena Popova, I stopped working on the paintings and explored something new.
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I am delighted to have been awarded a Platform residency at the Surface Gallery. I will use this opportunity to create something new that develops my previous thinking and uses elements from my previous technical and visual work.
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Creative residencies help you to step outside of what you know; they’re uncomfortable – often you’re working with new places, materials, and people. I like thinking of the residency as disturbing the monotony of my practice.
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Artist Elsa Truman- Rickett started experimenting in art from an early age ‘messing about with paint-points’ following in the footsteps of her artist mother. Studying at Newark College after school she worked her way up to receiving a Fine Art and History of Art degree at Oxford Brookes University. Her work follows an illustrative style, focusing on the depiction of dogs in unique costumes.
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Ezster describes herself as ‘a very motivated, ambitious self-taught artist’, after not fully exploring her artistic passion until her early twenties she was inspired to get back into drawing by the support from her equally artistic family.
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