Aarron Stroud
London / Falmouth, United Kingdom
Born 1994, Surrey, UK. Aarron is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, sculpture...
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Aarron Stroud
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Aarron Stroud
Joined In 2013
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Born 1994, Surrey, UK.
Aarron is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, sculpture, conservation and the poetics of writing. His works materiality focuses on the untruth of substance and often collaborates mediums in order to question traditional art practice, while embracing its process.
He currently works and researches in Falmouth and London.
From the recent group of paintings: Hyacinth (Requiem in 5 Blooms)
Painterly marks, historical trace and alchemical process; the work confronts the idea of the painterly imperative against archival integrity and antiquity.
Enveloped within mythological and classical literature, these paintings are an attempt to consider an existentialist overthrowing of the sublime and a questioning of the self. The painterly mark serves as a spiritual channelling and intermediary between God and Humanity. The work will decay, crumble, rebirth; it is my desire to consider in the paintings the virtues of the human spirit and the crisis of human existence.
Flooded plains of colour, raw acids and crystallising pigment; the surface is a burnt flesh where the underneath light is receding to the forefront. Hyacinth (Requiem in 5 Blooms) contains poetry o...
2012-13 | University College Falmouth; Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
2013-16 | Falmouth University; BA (hons) Fine Art
2014 | This Earth: Ahusaka, Espowyes,
Donehogawa, Falmouth School of Art,
Falmouth.
2015 | Schism (Ploratio), The Poly, Falmouth.
2015 | FORE, Studio collective, Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth.
2016 | Hyacinth (Requiem in 5 Blooms) Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth.
2016 | Summer/2016, 5 July - 3 September, Tregony Gallery, Cornwall
2017 | The Observatory: Perspectives on LandsLandscape, Society and Spirit, In partnrpartnership with the University of Exeter, ExeterExeter. 11-18 June.
2017 -18 | "Self in Pink and Blue" exhibited as apart of a group show. Falmouth Gallery. 11 November- 20 January.
2018 | Hyacinthus paintings featured in group show. Beside the Wave Gallery, Falmouth. June 2018.
2018 | We Are Making A New World, Artizan Gallery, Torquay. 5-27 October 2018.
Projects:
2017 | Installation Assistant, Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Mannequin and artifact installation