Will Kendrick

Through an ongoing investigation into colour and materials the work aims to occupy the space between disciplines by investigating the boundaries and perceptions of painting by creating forms and surfaces which demonstrate both the materials luxurious nature and aesthetic qualities.

The work aims to explore ideas of order and chaos, painting and sculpture, avant-garde and kitsch and how these precarious pairings can exist together, through subtle formal arrangement and colourful sensory overloads.

Often bringing paint away from the canvas to force it to exist as substance alone, these kaleidoscopic works celebrate the brilliance of colour, through a clear interest in the medium of paint.

Will was born in 1983 in Blackpool, England, he is an emerging artist and recent graduate of Bath School of Art and Design. Influenced primarily by the fifties and sixties New York painting of Mark Rothko, Barnett Neumann, Frank Stella and Jackson Pollock; the work follows this line through to contemporary altermodernism and the neo pop aesthetic of today's digitally connected world.

Will grew up in the North West of England in the seaside town of Blackpool where his infatuation with colour and light was born. The amusements and ill...

BA (Hons) Fine Art at Bath Spa University, 2010

Blackpool and the Fylde School of Art, Design and Performing Arts, 2007