Jim Threapleton
Jim Threapleton is an artist working in London and Vancouver. He studied History of Art at Manchester University. In 2008 his BIFA nominated debut feature film, Extraordinary Rendition premiered in competition at the Edinburgh and Locarno International Film Festivals. He completed his Fine Art MA in 2010 and was awarded his doctorate from Chelsea College of Art, London in 2016. He has exhibited internationally, including shows at the Courtauld, London, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore and Carles Taché Gallery, Barcelona. He was included in the 2021 Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting.
Threapleton’s paintings are defiantly unstable. He pursues abstraction at the threshold of representation with a uniquely contemporary approach to traditional technique. The plastic immediacy of oil paint drives a lyrical indeterminacy found between control and accident, depth and flatness, between the real and the indefinable. Gestural improvisation animates a fluid pictorial territory where the spectacle of image is superseded by a contemplative, expressive materiality that channels the spirit of painting’s Romantic legacy.
SATURN
May 13 - June 6, 2023
Paintings develop by themselves. The unfolding of a thing out of itself. Feeling is method. Oil paint is a superconductor.
Paintings develop by themselves. The unfolding of a thing out of itself. Feeling is method. Oil paint is a superconductor.
UNTITLED I. 2023. 30 x 30 cm. Oil on wood panel UNTITLED II.2023. 30 x 30 cm. Oil on wood panel
