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Malcolm Ashman ROI RBA
Known for his vibrant landscapes, Malcolm Ashman continues to prove
his ability to craft intuitive blends of physicality and memory on the
canvas of his new construction paintings. In response to his experience
of the current riverside developments in Bath, his trademark painterly
shorthand animates both the physical changes he sees and the fluctuating
ambience as the regeneration unfolds before us on the canvas.
Ashman has had work exhibited for such well-established awards as the
Threadneedle Prize alongside group exhibitions in London with the Royal
Society of Portrait painters, the Royal Society of British Artists and the
Royal Institute of Oil painters. His style is both critically respected and
distinctly recognisable.
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Marc Bodie
Marc Bodie joins Malcolm Ashman for his first show at Bath
Contemporary with a body of haunting three-dimensional works. His
reinforced concrete heads are engaged in a physical and emotional tussle
of creation and corrosion, the resilient industrial material playing host to
expressions of human distress and fragility.
Bodie used to exhibit regularly with the McHardy Sculpture Company in
London and has shown work in Wales after receiving both an Arts
Festival Residency and funding from the Welsh Arts Council. His work
was featured in a Channel 4 docu-drama together with works by
Elisabeth Frink and Henry Moore and he has sculptures in various private
and corporate collections.