Visual Designer - Artist
I’m Albert, a visual artist and designer based in Bristol with a range of interests.
I enjoy combining analogue forms with digital spaces, painting with photography, and the simple with the complex.
My most recent exhibition ‘Truth, like love and sleep resents approaches that are too intense’ took place at Centrespace Gallery and contained a selection of paintings related to the idea of approaching a subject through skirting means.
Latest Design
A Formative Experience
Back in 2014 when I was just a clueless creative child who hadn’t quite found his calling yet, I would always be visiting galleries and looking at whatever was free.
The exhibition that inspired this redesign was called ‘Conflict, Time, Photography.’ at the Tate Modern.
It was my first real introduction to Photography as a flexible form of artwork that sat alongside paintings, that could be both gruesome and beautiful. Kijuki Kawada was a photographer who captured the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, showing the city in ruin, and you can almost feel the radiation through the grain in the photographs.
It had a great effect on me at the time, and I started taking photography seriously from that day on. The show also coincided with Kawada’s zine ‘The Map’. This combined design and photography in a completely new way to me, and probably sparked my love of red.
For this poster I wanted to recreate one of Kawada’s grainy photographs in Illustrative form, summoning clouds on Photoshop for the background, and create an alternative poster in homage to a formative experience in my life.
Exhibition
"Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense" - WH. Auden
“This exhibition takes its title from a line by W.H. Auden, which expresses the attempt to uncover the ineffable – truths, emotions, and sensations that resist direct articulation and definition.
It features the work of several UK-based painters, each engaging with the challenge of representing what often defies representation.
Just as some aspects of human experience are best understood through intuition rather than intellect, the works produce intuitive harmonious outcomes through form, colour, and quality.
The show invites viewers to discover meaning through introspection, taking into account the works within the context of their own lives, uncovering a personal meaning rather than a pre-written one.
Just as sleep comes to us when we stop looking for it, these works encourage a slow contemplation rather than an immediate comprehension.”
See photos from the group exhibition I created in January at Centrespace Gallery, Bristol: