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Flight from Conflict Painting

Frank Creber

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 35 W x 32.3 H x 2 D in

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Painting is a bit like cooking; you can have complicated ingredients and a simple method, or simple ingredients and a complicated method. You can follow a recipe closely or see what’s in the cupboard and use your knowledge, cooking skills and intuition to make a meal. The ingredients for these paintings are found images of people that resonate with my memories and emotions, brought together with cityscapes that I have made on location in East London that carry an emotional bank of knowledge. My painting is a combination of internal and external motivations; the method is to create compositions in a collage technique that is guided more by an internally motivated chemistry than an externally motivated existing narrative. However the story I want to visualise is about a group of people coming together in a place, maybe with a common purpose, or just brought together by chance; sequential art and murals have influenced the style and making of the work. “If we imagine what our nation would see as the home of our national character, it would be the small town, not the metropolis, or the wild countryside.” Patrick McCabe, the Irish Writer was in conversation on Radio 3 and this sentence got me thinking about the paintings I was making. Moving into Bromley by Bow in East London in 1986, and joining a newly formed community project, we ran a summer festival in the first year, and building on the success and the sense ‘that when something is born of the community it needs to be repeated’ - we did it the following year and the next 35 years after that. I ran a youth arts project for 11 years, every Thursday 7-9 pm, we made murals and large papier-mâché sculptures and sometimes trips out across London. On one occasion the mini bus took us past St. Pauls Cathedral, I pointed this out - some of the children responded by saying “do you mean St Paul’s Way School?” (the local primary School). Despite living in London E3, Zone 3 on the tube line, many local children had not been outside their ‘Village’ into the west end, I began to realise that London was like a series of small towns. I think the summer festivals were like a momentary ‘Bubble of Utopia’, a market place for the community, sharing gossip, home made food, creativity and meeting people of different cultures that live on the same street. In fact a healthy community needs gateway experiences that become part of the narrative of neighbourhood life, these events that are like safe spaces create lasting friendships. Being curious and observing people together socialising or working together I began to notice the characters I was creating in my drawing reflected different kinds of personality traits: (I stumbled across the theory of ‘Big Five’ personality traits) Extroversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticisms. For me painting deals with how I negotiate these preoccupations about community life into pictorial space, recent months have demonstrated that our health and a healthy life style is clearly connected to being together with people and with our relationships in the community. Just like the community festival that I experienced being part of over many years, the current paintings in this show are titled after other places, events and moments I have observed: the Comedy Club, Lower Clapton Road Pond, Bow Flyover, By The River Thames, Palm 2 shop, House of Lower Clapton, Coffee at Canary Wharf.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

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Size:35 W x 32.3 H x 2 D in

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In 2005 Frank Creber was appointed Director of Visual Arts for Water City CIC, leading on a programme of collaborative, educational and exhibition events, which to date have involved over 1,000 children and 200 Artists and musicians. In 2005 Frank Creber was appointed the official artist in residence until 2012 for Water City, an ambitious new re-development programme centred around a network of local waterways in east London. Extending from the Olympic Park in the north to East India Dock in the south, the East End is once again being subjected to the force of rapid urban renewal which Creber is recording through drawings and paintings as the project develops; a project driven by a vision to create a true legacy for east London, both physical and social. But as an artist with over twenty years experience of working within community groups in a deprived neighbourhood in Bow, Creber is equally committed to making works that explore a deeply urban affair between a new world created in the pursuit of progress and modernity and the community that it is setting out to serve. A community whose optimism is by no means universal because they have seen before that the developers’ bulldozers can just as easily destroy the inner-city infrastructure geared to serving local needs. A key to the relationship that Frank Creber has to the East End and its community lies in his role as Creative Director (up to 2010) at the celebrated Bromley by Bow Centre where he was one of the founding artists in 1986. He continues as a lead Artist for the Centre. Frank was born in 1959 and trained at University of Newcastle upon Tyne (B.A in Painting 1981) and Chelsea College of Art (M.A. in Painting 1987) and he has collected a number of prestigious awards: the Herbert Read Fellowship at Chelsea, Barclays Bank Young Painters Award and the Pickering Fellowship at Kingston. In 2008 Frank Creber was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, for his work in Community Arts with Young People.

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