Tim Healey - CV

 

Education

 

B.A University of Essex Completed 2012

 

UCS M.A Fine Arts Practice Completed 2017

 

Residencies

 

Cyprus Art School Residency 2016

 

Nida Residency September 2015
Collaboration with students Vilnius Academy on an art film based on a painting, a view.

 

Benham Gallery Residency 2013
Cuckoo Farm Studios
Boxted Road Colchester

 

Exhibitions

 

Nude for Thought re: defining beauty 2015 November
Group Exhibition Leyden Gallery, London

 

Firsite 2015
Open Exhibition, Colchester

 

Outhouse East 2015 Solo Exhibition
19 East Hill
Colchester
CO1 2QU                                 
April 2015

 

Waiting Room 2014 Solo exhibition November 20014
Queen Street
Colchester
Essex
CO1 2PJ    

 

Benham Gallery 2013 August
Group Show

 

Trumen Breweries 2012 June
Final year exhibition of B.A Fine Art  

 

Park Contemporary Gallery 2011 November
KZNSA – Kwazulu Natal Society of the Arts solo show
Bulwer Road
Durban
4001
South Africa

 

Candid Arts Trust group show July 2011
3-5 Torrens Street,
London EC1V 1NQ

 

Highgate Gallery group show 2011
At Highgate literary and Scientific Institution
11 South Grove
London

 

Hay Gallery 2011
Colchester Art Institute

 

The Minories 2nd year show. 2010
74 High Street
Colchester

 

Open Studios, Cuckoo Farm Studios
Yearly, September 2013 - 2016

 

Artists statement

My professional artistic practice focuses on two perspectives, firstly, portraiture as an expression of fleeting emotions; and second the exploration of ‘meditative’ spaces - large format ‘’concrete’’ paintings. On the one hand I am interested in the idea and manifestation of ‘closeness’ and on the other hand the antithetical notion of ‘distance’. Also the relationship between the two, namely the journey from intimacy to spaciousness.

 

For my portraiture I typically use found imagery from a variety of sources. I am currently developing other avenues, for example, taking my own photographs directly of the subject/s for use as source material. I plan to focus on city events and the immediacy of street photography. I plan to develop my interest in the sensibility of movement in the face. I use photographs as a starting point which I then develop into paintings. My primary vehicle would be photography, sketching and painting.

 

My approach to my art making is a construct. Theoretically, I have a formalistic approach whilst working. This, particular in my landscape inspired abstracted works takes on an improvisational way of working, akin to jazz music. The essence of my working practise arises from an ‘east meets west’ discourse, which aspires to the idea of capturing the essence of things. In short a reductionist approach to image making.

 

Image: Leyton Gallery.