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Tristram Aver
Degree: BA Hons
University: Birmingham School of Fine Art, UCE, Birmingham.
Graduation Year: 2002
We think Aver’s work looks like someone’s dropped an atom bottom in a cartoon, in a good way. Merging the abstract with recognisable forms, as well as with imagery at the threshold of recognition - these works are highly energising. Aver’s artwork responds to a technological culture - harnessing the potential of new media and feeding the results back into a tangled world of paint.
“I see my work as an interpretation of our time. As the use of technology shapes our world and our responses to it, my interest lies in examining the volume of visual information we are bombarded with every day in this digital age. I attempt to create a personal yet formal language, through painting, to communicate this visual information, translating it into a single, stimulating new language. I aim to capture and identify a hybrid, ‘sampled’ view of the world that imitates the implosion of visual information to the eye.
The process of making the work is very important to me. Each painting is made using the same process. I begin by creating computer generated ‘plans’ from collected source material. I sample common historical, cultural and commercial references (logos, motifs, typography, textiles, graphic design, paint marks from art history for example) and re-analyse their original context and meaning. Created on the computer screen these plans appear flat and very formal. When I translate them onto canvas the forms and shapes take on new meaning; the surface is shiny and matt, they are textured and they drip. Essentially they become objects as I experiment with paint, with human imperfections. One is not a literal translation of the other, colours can be changed through the conditions in which they are made and viewed, a hard edge can become soft and flat colour textured and raised."
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004, ‘Tristram Aver’, Gallery DNA, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire.
2000, Works, The Conservatoire, Birmingham.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012, "You Can Call Me", Project Berlin, Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin.
2011, Apartness, Recoat Gallery, Glasgow
2010, Visual at Unilever, Port Sunlight, Manchester
2010, Midlands Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington
2009, Being Here, Visual at Nutmeg House, A&B Headquarters, London
2009, NewBloodArtists, The Lightbox, Chiswick, London
2009, New works by Tristram Aver, Anette Bjorholm & Melvin Galapon, Medcalf Exhibition Space, London
2007, Nottingham Castle Annual Open 2007, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
2007, 11th East Midlands Contemporary Art Auction’, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
2007, Works, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
2006, Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2005, 2D Open, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2005, Fiction Translation Location, Blake’s Lock Museum, Reading
2005, Open Studios 2005, Open Hand Open Space Studios and Gallery, Reading
2005, Intermission#1, Gallery DNA, Staffs
2004, Reading Artists, Reading Museum, Reading
2004, Colour & Texture, Jelly Leg’d Chicken Gallery, Reading
2004, HP, Hype Gallery, Brick Lane, London
Prizes
2009, Arts Council Travel Bursary, India, with the Contemporary Arts Society, Curatorial Research and Professional Development Grant
2008, East Midlands Selected Artist, Visual, Arts & Business Scheme, showcasing the best of UK talent
2007, Short listed, The Celeste Art Prize
2006, Hallward Art Prize, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
2003, Short listed, Bloomberg New Contemporaries