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Elin
Thomas is a Bristol based artist, she was a member of both the 'Minto' and
'B.I.C.A.' groups based at Jamaica street studios, and now has a working
space in the Epstein building in Easton. As well as exhibiting she has recently
completed an MA in Visual Culture at Bath College of Art. Her artistic practice
covers such concerns as music, sculpture, drawing and graffiti. This show
however, consists exclusively of recent paintings. These paintings develop
a diversity of craft and painterly activities founded primarily in the pleasures
of the decorative. As a painter, Elin follows a private logic based on the
challenge of creating pieces that function both as image and object. The
processes of decorative art - cutting, copying, masking and stencilling
provide a means of construction that enables a proliferation of resonances
between style, materiality and painting. |
