Adam Rawlinson
I am a recent graduate of Fine Art from the University of Salford. I have exhibited work around Manchester and Salford at the Haworth Gallery at Chethams School of Music and at Salford Art Gallery as well as in London, at Brick Lane Gallery. I have work currently publicly displayed in my hometown of Morecambe and have exhibited in the 20:20 print exchange, which exhibits nationally and internationally.
I have established an abstract painting practise working primarily with oil paints, on medium to large scale canvases. I use abstraction as a vehicle to portray ideas of philosophy, the sublime and nature. My practise is in thrall to the 20th century American movement, Abstract Expressionism, and is motivated by a desire to explore the ineffable connection we share with the world around us, and connect, emotionally with the audience. I use nature and philosophical inquiry to impose questions about our place in the world upon an audience.
I am concerned with mark making and how the application and aesthetic of the paint can communicate ideas of existentialism and phenomenology.