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The Study of Where is Near

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The Study of Where is Near - Nick Wade

The Study of Where is Near
Nick Wade

The painted forms are the reslut of an accumulation of influences. The camera obscura has been a site of intereste for years, primarily because of the experience of that environment gives one the opportunity to see one’s self in the act of perception or to see one’s self inside the eye, sight being privileged beyond all other sense.
To make a hole in a box is literally to make a camera, the Italian word for room is “camera”.

A simple shelter, which offers some bodily security can be seen as a cell for contemplation of what it is to be human.
To it and muse in such a space is to engage the enclosure in the way the whole structure (imagine a hut) and its parts answer the needs of the human body…protection, visual position, warmth perhaps, breath also. You name the others.

Pre-Renaissance Italian painting, as well as being a period during which religious figures were depicted in various states of detachment and isolation from daily culture is also fascinating for artists’ methods of rendering architecture, interior space the human body and natural forms. The particularities of architectural rendering which occur in the work of artists such as Giotto have been of great interest.

But it was seeing the painting from 1760-75, “St Jerome in his Study” , by Antonello Da Messina which made me think of using the board which I have used to this point*…among other things.
The board I am using has a dimensional stability that appeals to me and when kept from shock and moisture, continues to present as a thin but stable mass rather than a layered sheet. Having constructed a number of works with this material. I prefer Medite II to MDF as Medite is made without formaldehyde.

The painting of box-like architectural and optical images on box like supports come from an intuitive place. There is an attempt in the design stage where I attempt to include the support material through both its colour presence and as a visual and structural foundation. (And a location where the light comes in).

*(Loosely, Antonello rendered the matrerial of St. Jerome’s study as something which I could identify only as Medium Density Fibreboard, MDF).

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  • 2015
    • The Field of Appearances
    • (un)Desirables
    • Time... Place... People...
    • LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
    • Half Pace
    • I Wish I Was A Little More Delicate
    • Inappropriate Intensities
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  • 2016
    • Collision of.....
    • Confined Landscapes: A Project From The Carceral Landscape
    • FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS
    • COURT PAINTER & THE POLITICAL ELITE
    • Interface
    • /GRENZE
    • Faltamos Fantasmas
    • Evan Peacock
    • Ecoscapes: envisioning science and ecology
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  • 2017
    • From Away To
    • Return
    • Court Painter
    • IIKAAKIIMAAT
    • Underfoot: Domestic Abstraction
    • OLD BRICKS NEW TRICKS
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  • 2018
    • Art Becomes Nature
    • Occurrences
    • THE FIGURE in Relationship
    • Wer bist du?
    • That's not what I meant.
    • CORPUS PHILOSOPHORUM
    • I Reserve The Right
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  • 2019
    • Construct Counterpoint
    • askîy iskwew
    • This Apparent Magnitude
    • Salvage
    • Unruly Bodies II
    • Ghosts and Angels
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  • 2020
    • O Death
    • Material Instincts: Ruminations on Motherhood and Craft
    • Studium
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  • 2021
    • IN THE SHADOW OF SUMMER
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  • 2022
    • Jeffrey Spalding - A Tribute.
    • Janice Rahn & Michael Campbell
    • Billy McCarroll - Recent Work
    • Colour & Connections
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  • 2014
    • senselikeblueplace
    • The Study of Where is Near
    • The Entangled Argument
    • Liar Liar
    • Hoarder Tendencies
    • DICKENS!
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • MUTATIONS
    • MICROCOSM
    • Hobby Shop
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  • 2013
    • Bloodless & Boneless
    • Unity in Opposition
    • Three Women
    • Pablo's Grid / Drop Cloth Paintings
    • Principles of Nostalgia
    • M.E.D.I.U.M
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  • 2012
    • End of Time
    • All You Can Eat
    • Manufacturer
    • The Wandering Thought II
    • The Voice Reached Us
    • Debra Tisdale
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  • 2011
    • Paradise Lost
    • Nature As Culture
    • Architectural Drawing
    • Decoy
    • Iconographies
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  • 2010
    • Nouveau Frankenstein
    • Potemkin – Whole Sum of Its Parts
    • The Irreal and The Imaginary
    • Elyse Longair
    • At the other side of beyond
    • Walks in the Wood
    • Muster
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  • 2009
    • Come Through my Doorway
    • Fortuna
    • Triangulation
    • Membrane
    • New Works
    • Serendipity
    • Early Work
    • Dear Edward
    • These are for Science
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  • 2008
    • Abitation
    • Drawing Distance
    • Paper Fitting
    • Potluck
    • A Haphazard History
    • Portraits from the Hive
    • Leftovers
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