"One interest for me is the territory of permissions and exclusions, the marginalised or transient state between or across identities where the dynamics of social and political control come into play."
"I like to try and keep alive that space between chance and intent.
The images are constructions out of this mix over time. The main levers are surface articulation, colour and often specific insertions of objects or other material."
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Bernard Charnley is based in Stoke-on-Trent and works primarily in paint with an emphasis on colour and material uses. The imagery engages with ideas of impermanence, chance and identity.
His practice includes membership of AirSpace, an artist led group aiming to promote the city as a centre for contemporary visual arts.
www.bernardcharnley.co.uk
airspacegallery.org
email: plainair@btinternet.com
Recent Exhibitions/Events
Group:
There Is Beauty In The City/ Ezcurdia_30 Gallery/Gijon, Spain/August 2010
Common Ground/AirSpace public art exhibition/Hanley Park/June 2010
Learning Journeys/Urban Vision/Phase One/Sheffield/Feb 2010
Learning Journeys/Urban Vision/Phase One/Leicester/Nov 2009
First Stoke-on-Trent Pecha Kucha Night/
Presenter and joint producer/Collaborative with artists Anna Francis, Mark Brereton and Brian Holdcroft. Sound by bITjAM. Documentation by Inspired Film and VIdeo and Iconic Images:Darren Washington/
FatCat Cafe and Bar Stoke-on-Trent/Nov 2009
Inter?ogation/Walsall New Art Gallery/Sept 2009 Collaborative with artist Brian Holdcroft
Performance piece and collaborative producer/ Dummy Run Pecha Kucha/Fat Cats CafeBar/Stoke-on-Trent August 2009
Participation in Marina Abramovich
performance /Whitworth Gallery/Manchester - July 2009
AntiFreeze/Manchester/collaborative with artist Anna Francis - 2009
Aftermath/AirSpace studio artists Leek Institute, Leek - 2009
Preston Pest Project/Castlefield Gallery 2008
Allotments/Harrington Studios, Nottingham – 2008
D2, Leipzig – Salon 2008
Play/AirSpace, Stoke-on-Trent – 2008
Short Cuts/AirSpace Gallery (Stoke-on-Trent) – 2007
Identity/The Artists Organisation/ Nottingham – 2007
Solo:
The Instability of Spaces/AirSpace Dialogue Box/Stoke-on-Trent - August 2009
A Different Kind of Beauty/Harrington Studios/ Nottingham - April 2009
bernard charnley visual artist
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