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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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Brief 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" (right)
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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
