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BIOGRAPHY

Kit Glaisyer’s work refuses to be pigeonholed: throughout his career he has experimented with many contrasting disciplines, and, uniquely, continues to practice almost all of them – from Process Painting to Landscapes, and visionary figurative pieces to Video and Conceptual art.

In 2002 Glaisyer set up the artist-led Artoose Gallery, in Belsize Park, North London, with fellow artist Douglas McDougall. This ran for two years, and re-emerged in a refined conceptual format as the Artoose Collective, focusing on a core group of nine dedicated artists. (www.artoose.net)

This independent, enterprising streak was clear from the very beginning of his career, when Glaisyer and left his degree course to make his way to London and develop his own work.

Setting up his first studio in Finsbury Park, he first created figurative works, influenced particularly by Picasso’s Blue and Rose period, and then developed into semi-abstract works.

Then in 1994 he moved into the Blue Chapel Studios with 'techno expressionist' artist Rufus Knight-webb, and the combination of this vast derelict space, and exposure to a major show of Gerhard Richter in 1995 prompted a major change of direction to a series of large-scale ‘resonant’ style Process Paintings.

“I would choose colours with emotional resonance, then let the paint run down and ‘paint itself’. The ghost of my figurative work still remained underneath, which gave the abstract works a presence, as if someone was standing in front of you.”

In 1998 Glaisyer took up a residency in rural Dorset. Rich colour immediately seeped into his work, and he began painting minimalist seascapes, reduced his increasingly vibrant abstracts to a tiny scale, and juggled with a dichotomy of urban and country landscapes.

In 1999 Glaisyer established the St Michaels Studios, in Bridport, Dorset, which has now grown to provide studios for over 16 artists, and is at the forefront of a new movement of contemporary artists choosing to live and create their work outside of the city.

In 2004 Glaisyer mounted a solo retrospective at Bridport Arts Centre. But with just weeks to spare, he changed tack completely and created a dramatic new body of work. This included his visionary “Jesus arrives…” diptych, and the emergence of a series of Hopper-esque urban scenes, notably Café Royal, which imbue quotidian urban landmarks such as petrol stations and diners with an eerie psychological undertone.

Glaisyer is now progressing his work yet further. Among his current projects is an exploration of figurative styles combined with physical paint processes. This has led to a series of erotic works, inspired by traditional Japanese 'pillow' book wood prints, whose subjects are revealed by the juxtaposition of several layers of autonomous paint surfaces.

This diversity of styles feeds into all of Glaisyer’s work. Creative freedom is top of the agenda. He is currently working on a new series of intentionally confrontational iconographic paintings and video works, dealing with the subjects of religious propaganda, spirituality, alternative healing, and the profound implications of Quantum Physics.

“I like to let a whole body of work evolve – whether it’s video, sculpture, or erotica. It’s a warped combination of disciplines – and sometimes I want to f**k it up, other times I just want it to be beautiful.”

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