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Tony
Goble
Winner of the Second Prize - Welsh Artist
of the Year 2002 |
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Tony
Goble
A story-telling
border preson, between two lands, is unavoidably autobiographical.
Born in the middle of Wales. I grew up with the taste for
two tongues and a sense that things were not always what they
appear to be: in the making of Art there are no barriers,
time blurs, the wake-a-day world is as real as the dream and
the dream as real as visible facts.
Looking, as I work,
from two points, the inner and the outer, the creative world
of spirit and imagination makes rhythms with the world of
material and form. The fragments of my life. The snap-shots
of my dreams mix and the poem grows.
Tony Goble.
(Taken from "Intimate Portraits" the Glynn Vivian
Art Gallery, Swansea 1995)
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"Byzantine Birds" by Tony Goble
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Statement:
Some of the abstract
ingredients needed to make a Goble painting include:
Line, colour,
shape, pattern, dreams, symbol, narrative, autobiographical
imagery, metaphor, imagination, allegory, vision, luck, song,
and poetic response.
When some or all
of these qualities are together under the right-conditions,
the fun and adventure of a painting might begin.
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The paintings
of Anthony Goble present us with glimpses of a surprising
but strangely familiar world.
Mythical self-portraits,
scarecrows all at sea, fantastic beasts and fabulous people
are all typical slements of a Goble painting. But these jostling
phantoms all seem to be located in a world that isn't too
far from the everyday.
The dense texture
of the paint competes with the outlandish subject matter and
where the two come to a mutual agreement the effect can be
overpowering.
Goble has stolen
the clothes of the Surrealists and the Expressionists and
cut the cloth to fit his own back. And a fine suit it makes.
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"Journey Back" by Tony Goble
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"Woman with Vessel" by Tony Goble (left) and "Pilgrim"
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Giant
cockerels strut across lopsided farmyards, fish swim over
the heads of seemingly oblivious bearded patriarchs, trees
burn while angels perch in their branches - but none of this
seems beyond the bounds of possibility.
Goble has fooled
us into believing the unbelievable and gets us to thank
him for it.
…the artist
has presented us with an 'anthology' of works which represent
only a brief glimpse into a very fruitful period of his
[Goble] career.
All he asks in
return is that we find him an angel to paint.
Mark Jones
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Brief
C.V.
Exhibitions:
London Group; Royal Academy, London; National Eistedfodau; Royal
Cambrian Academy, Conwy; Salford Museum; Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno;
National Portrait Gallery, London; Galerie Der Stade, Stuttgart,
Germany; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Westminster Cathedral,
London; Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Llanbedrog; Crawford Municipal
Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Camden Arts Centre, London; John Frost
Gallery, Newport; Penwith Gallery, St.Ives; Museum of Modern
Art, Machynlleth; Royal College of Art, London; Contemporary
Art from Wales, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands; Glynn Vivian Gallery,
Swansea; Offene Ateliers Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany; Bridgewater
Arts Centre, Somerset.
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Collections:
Welsh Arts Council; University College, North Wales; University
College, Cardiff; North Wales Association of the Arts; Church
in Wales; Leeds Museum; BBC Wales; South Glamorgan County
Council; Contemporary Arts Society of Wales; Earl of Plymouth;
St.Teilo's School, Cardiff; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea.
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"Vision" by Tony Goble |
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TONY
GOBLE 
