John Gamble works from his studios in Ilkley. He is co-founder of Art School Ilkley which offers workshops for young artists and adults. His work is intuitive, responding to memory, soundscapes and place. He allows himself the joyful freedom to erase, obliterate, remove and then to repair, whilst slowly shifting the paintings focus. The resultant paintings contain hints of story and narrative related to the human figure contained within imaginary landscapes.
EDUCATION:
Leeds College of Art Access
BA Visual and Perfomance Art
Leeds College of Art: MA Creative Practice
Royal Drawing School
EXHIBITIONS
Tinker Gallery, Ilkley
Damside Mill Gallery, Haworth
The Atrium. St James Hospital. Leeds
The Great Yorkshire Art Show
Aire Place Studios, Leeds
Coles Gallery Leeds
Ones to Watch.
Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds.
Curators Choice
Leeds Arts University
The Solar gallery, Ilkley
Curation, Workshops, Residency, Links
Mature Students Matter. Leeds Arts University
Research into Mature Students accessing Art and Design education.
Commissioned by Beck Foot Trust.
Hands: Drawing workshops for young artist with Art School Ilkley
Live Drawing workshop with movement and sound.Movement by Mati Torres. Sound by Ben Walker.
In response to Cantabile Chamber Choir-Leeds 'This Shining Night'.
120 bars of buttermilk soap. Samuel Lister School
Residency 2016. Bradford
Initially photographic portraits were produced employing a collaborative process that gave the participants time for dialogue, assessment and selection. The resultant images were combined with the school soap bar and we used them to wash our hands. The portraits appeared, and then deteriorated. Discussions developed on the erasure of images, of identity and the nature of memory.
Source Photographic ReviewGRADUATE PHOTOGRAPHY ONLINE 2016
Exhibited at Leeds Arts University 'Curators Choice' 2017
