Raymond Yap Artist's Statement

I am a process painter and my work evolves and comes into being through a combination of factors driven by the painting process. I do not try to convey a painterly representation of reality, but to create new realities which bear a relationship simply to the physical properties of the paint and their changes over time, mediate by my interaction with the work during its creation . This process requires a series of decisions which include the choice of type and colour of paint, the method of application, application time and drying time and the variety and frequency of my interventions during the process. Depending upon the chosen medium and its inherent properties, all thee processes are mutable and open to the play of chance and the exigencies of time. My images are ñlittered with incidentî and although I exert a degree of control in order to facilitate these ïincidentsÍ, their consequences are very much open to the play of chance, and their history becomes a fascinating series of encounters between control and chance, between the ordered and the arbitrary. It is this tension between the appearance of order arrived at through the surrender to spontaneity and chance that gives these works a certain visual torsion.

Images of work

Brief CV

EDUCATION 1995-1998 B.A (Hons) Fine Art (Painting), Wimbledon School of Art 1998-2001 Post Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy Schools SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2003 New Work, The Agency Contemporary , London 2002 Royal Academy of Art Selina Chenevi²re, Fellowship Exhibition 2002 "Bordercrossing" The Agency Contemporary. London 1999 Norman Rea Gallery, Langwith College Summer Exhibition, University of York GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Art 2006, Islington London Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition 2005 ñAbsolutely Secretî Royal College of Art ñWhen in rome Vî Portsmouth Arts Centre ïFirst StepsÍ, Chinese Art Centre, Manchester ñWhen in rome IVî Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham ñLekkaî, APT Gallery, London

Contact

Email: Website: www.theagencygallery.co.uk

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