Visual Designer - Artist
I’m Albert, a multimedia artist based in Bristol, specialising in design and painting.
Combining analogue and digital, painting with design, and understanding the intersection of the two allows me to approach a subject through indirect avenues.
My most recent exhibition ‘Truth, like love and sleep resents approaches that are too intense’ took place at Centrespace Gallery and contained paintings create through, or related to the idea of approaching a subject through skirting means.
Recent Design work
A Formative Experience
In 2014, I was always visiting whatever free galleries were available.
The one that inspired this redesign was: ‘Conflict, Time, Photography’ at the Tate Modern.
It was my first introduction to Photography as a flexible form of artwork that appeared in a gallery setting. Kijuki Kawada was a photographer who captured the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, showing the city in ruin, radiation almost felt through the grain in the photographs.
The show also featured Kawada’s zine ‘The Map’. This combined design and photography in a way I hadn’t seen before, and had a great effect on my work going forward.
Recent 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: