Details
| First Name | Ray |
| Last Name | Rankine |
| Username | raymondrankine |
| Website | |
| Region | England |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Illustration, Painting, Photography |
| Themes | Abstract, Figurative, Landscape |
Statement
| Statement |
My practice revolves around painting, drawing and mark making to create abstract images. I use mainly acrylic paint with charcoal and pastel on canvas or board. Recent paintings have begun to introduce text as an element, sometimes of poems referring to environmental and cultural themes; lines remembered from school days (poems like ‘Ozymandias’ by Shelley, Wordsworth’s ‘The World is Too Much with Us’) and then others by more modern poets together with random found text. Although the attraction for me is initially the effect of the words themselves followed by the exploration of their use as a means of disrupting the painted surface, the text is often destroyed – over-written, broken and distorted by the painting process – but to a degree the subject matter informs the initial construction of the image, preserving an echo of its original presence and sometimes a suggestion of its meaning. Not always though; the painting frequently evolves in a completely different way and becomes a reflection on the everyday abuse and erosion of language, the fragility of social systems and of actual material stuff and how meaning is constantly changed and renewed. All this while solving the daily problem of covering a canvas with paint. Ray Rankine 2021 |
Biography
| Biography | RAY RANKINE 2020 Ray Rankine studied painting at the Ulster College of Art and Design (now University of Ulster). He taught in Northern Ireland and London and is an experienced art director and concept artist in film, television and animation. He now paints. Exhibitions: Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2020 Uig Open 2020: Re-imagined Online, Hulabhaig, Isle of Lewis Society of Scottish Artists PALIMPSEST 2019, An Lanntair Gallery, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis SSA 121st Annual Exhibition 2018, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Royal Ulster Academy Open Exhibition 2018, Ulster Museum Gallery, Belfast. Art Gemini Prize Competition 2018 Finalists’ Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London. NOAC 2017 Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, London Discerning Eye Exhibition, London 2015, 2016, 2017 Shortlisted for NOAC 2013, 2014, 2015 Selected for NOAC at Harrogate International Visual Arts Expo 2015 Painting Now 2015 One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden United Society of Artists, London, Annual Open Exhibition 2014 Cork Street Gallery United Society of Artists, London, Annual Open Exhibition 2013 Bankside Gallery ‘Source’ 2012 Two-person show, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, R W S 2011 Open Competition Exhibition, Bankside gallery, London R B A Annual Exhibition 2010, 2011 The Mall Galleries, London The Pastel Society 2009, 2010 The Mall Galleries, London 21st Century Watercolours RWS 2009 Bankside gallery, London ‘Reveal’ Beldam Gallery, 2009 Brunel University | Solo exhibition, 2009 Fovea Gallery, Harrow | Momentum Exhibitions 1 – 3, 2006 – 2007 Menier Gallery, London
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