Winters Tale
11 December 2010 – 12 December 2010
New Road
Rye
TN31 7LS
01797 229 797
Opening Hours:
Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
http://www.theschoolcreativecentre.co.uk
http://www.nicholasarcher.com
The School Creative Centre is delighted to announce the exhibition ‘Winters Tale’ by Nick Archer. Graduating from the Royal Academy in 1999, Archer’ innovative paintings have been a constant on the British Art scene, winning Hunting Art Prize and BP Portrait Award amongst others. He has been represented by Sarah Myerscough Fine Art London since 2001 and most recently shown with Louise Alexander Gallery Paris and Italy. Archer is well known for his coloursaturated paintings referenced from photographs and films stills.
In August this year, Archer was invited to make a piece of work in response to the theme of Winter/Christmas as part of The School Creative Centre’s annual event ‘Christmas Bizarre’.
‘I had been working on a series of paintings based on winter and snow with something of a fairy tale quality to them. It seemed a natural progression to take this work into film and animation.’
Nick has spent the last six months bringing his paintings to life; recreating the process of making a painting, ‘warts and all’, with the help of animator Rebecca Archer.
‘When I make a painting the image comes and goes and transforms into something else. At times paint flows effortlessly and at other times the image is hard won and fought over. When the painting is finished only traces of the under painting and its history are evident in the complex surfaces and layers. With animation its history is consecutive rather than layered, therefore its history plays out in front of us releasing a time based narrative.’
The strictures of making an animation created new rules for Archer to break. The storyboard was discarded and in its place a process much closer to painting was developed, working spontaneously, yet painstakingly to create over 5000 individual shots to complete the 6 minute piece. What results is a moving piece of work about memory with an atmosphere of winter. Sometimes empty and haunting, other times full of incidence and movement, set to Edward Elgar’s ‘The Snow’.
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