35 & Counting
35 & Counting: Steve Moberly
In early February we launched ’35 & Counting’, an exhibition and online auction, marking 35 years of supporting emerging artists.
All proceeds of the online auction, launching on Thursday 16 February (5pm), will support our artist residency programme.
To showcase the 29 artworks generously donated, we have asked each of the artists to remind us about their involvement with the gallery and what a residency means to them.
Steve Moberly
A painting of space and not so space.
“There is no likeness only a manufactured, material imposter. It is enough to trick us as we are, perceptively insufficient and unhinged. As does the vibrating flux we call matter till consciousness witnesses. So it resumes its form, both rigid and fluid as to our experience. As if pushed from a tube and poked around with a fury ended stick.”
Steve Moberly was born in 1972 in Keynsham near Bristol, and now lives and works in Bournemouth. Recent highlights have been exhibiting in ‘John Moores Painting Prize’ 2016, ‘Beers contemporary Visions VII’ shortlist 2017, Aspex ‘Emergency’ group show 2015/16, winner best visual arts event, ‘Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe’ 2015 for his solo show ‘Insider Planting’ and ‘Platform’ nominee 2014.
What does a studio/place to work mean to you?
An essential separation from day to day distractions that permits and facilitates an acute focus on making
How have funded residencies supported your professional development, and what impact have they had on your work?
A residency I did in Bridport arts centre triggered a new direction for me.
