The b-uncut blog

Two of our artists will be
showing at the Real exhibition in
Chelsea this month through
the connections they
made here at b-uncut.

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The Real exhibition has been set up by an organisation called Go Figurative that specialise in figurative art. Claudie Bastide and Carolyn Jordan got connected with the co-founders of Go Figurative through another b-uncut member, Thomas Hodges who had exhibited with them before. Another great success story thanks to the power of our network!
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“In my pictorial research my interest shifted naturally from space geometry to urban geometry. My fascination with modern architecture has been the driving force of these photos. This exciting and sometimes stifling geometry encourages me to ask the place of man and nature in this environment. I respond by giving some disturbing or idyllic and always questioning aspects to my imagery. Although a photograph may be very beautiful, it doesn’t attract me enough, I must re-model it with the computer tools to give it the aspect of my vision.”

Claudie will be showing ‘Geometrie Urbaine’ printed on dibond aluminum.

“Probing analytical portraits and accomplished draughtsmanship belie the underlying solitude of people, whether alone or in groups facing the inevitability of their lives.” (extract London Portrait)  Her ‘people paintings’ where characters, sometimes eccentric, always interesting are dragged into the limelight and put into an almost theatrical décor. “My puppet show” as she calls it. Carolyn Jordan’s work can be found in countries all over the world. Once established she was able to invest in a real artist’s studio more suited to her large-format oil paintings.  The Mira Mar Gallery in Sarasota, Florida has shown her work alongside Cindy Sherman and Basquiat to name but a few.
Carolyn will be showing 3 paintings, ‘My job’s hanging by a thread’, ‘Unfinished Business’ and ‘Hanging Out’.