Colin Bailey
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Biography
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I am an artist & printmaker living and working in Hastings, East Sussex after living in Rye for ten years and Kings Cross, London for fifteen years.
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Statement
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I am an artist & printmaker living and working in Hastings, East Sussex after living in Rye for ten years and Kings Cross, London for fifteen years. Originally an etcher, and still with a printmaker's instinct for multiple images, I have embraced the advance of recent technology through the use of digital photography, high resolution scanning and archival quality gicl? printing.
As a popular Rye artist I realised the wider appeal of this small picturesque area of the south east coast and set up my website as a showcase for my Rye and Kings Cross etchings. Now in Hastings, and slowly building a reputation as a Hastings artist I have expanded my portfolio and have built up a series of paintings which I scan and reproduce as limited edition gicl? prints, handling this whole process myself in order to maintain artistic integrity.
As well as traditional views of Rye & Hastings, there is now a section of work exploring the textures and structures of Rye Bay (the East Sussex coast between Hastings and Dungeness). Ancient groynes, banks of constantly shifting shingle, fishing boats drying on the beach, and the prehistoric coast at the foot of the cliffs at Rock-a-Nore are examined in paintings with an almost abstract scale and attention to detail. Close-up and often ambiguous, these images of peeling, faded paintwork, rusting metal and cracked, bleached wood chart the results of man-made and natural structures slowly breaking up through the relentless onslaught of rain, wind, sun, sea, sand and time.
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Exhibitions
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1957 Born Southend, Essex
1967-1977 Lived in Singapore, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia
1978-1981 BA (Hons) Communication Design; North East London Polytechnic
1984-1990 Teaching Etching and Photography at the Working Men's College, Camden
1979-1993 Living on the Hillview Estate, Kings Cross, London
1993 Moved to Rye, East Sussex
2005 Moved to Hastings, East Sussex
Exhibitions
1983 Theatre Royal, Stratford East
1985 END OF THE LINE, Bloomsbury Theatre
CONSEQUENCES, Vortex Gallery, Stoke Newington
1986 THINGS FALL APART, Fallen Angel, Islington
Print maker's Council 21st Birthday Exhibition, Royal Festival Hall
1987 THE DELUGE, Fallen Angel, Islington
SENSE OF FEELING, Bloomsbury Crypt, Holborn
1992 BANKSIDE OPEN, Bankside Gallery London
1993 Rye Society of Artists Summer Show,
1996 Weald of Kent Art Group, Tenterden
1998 MAKING AN IMPRESSION, Rye Art Gallery
2005 Stratton Gallery, Hastings
2006 SoCo Gallery, Hastings
PATCH OF BLUE White Rock Theatre Gallery, Hastings
2007 IMPRINT Stable Theatre, Hastings
Rye River Cafe, Rye
Pissarro's Winebar, Hastings
Various exhibitions in restaurants, wine bars, cafes, pubs, hotels etc in London and East Sussex
Member of:
Rye Tuesday Painters, Weald of Kent Art Group, Battle Art Group. South Coast Artists, Printmakers Council
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