BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1469@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161111T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161111T180000 DTSTAMP:20161108T155302Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/chester-arts-centre-jac-butt-vic toria-bryan/ SUMMARY:Chester Arts Centre: Chester Arts Centre: Jac Butt & Victoria Bryan DESCRIPTION:Jac Butt &\; Victoria Bryan at Chester Arts Centre\n\nTwo s olo exhibitions by Jac Butt (gallery downstairs) and Victoria Bryan (middl e gallery upstairs)\nStarting at 6 PM onwards... Join us for a glass of wi ne and meet the artists!\n\nAbout Jac Butt\n\n'I am a self taught Artist. Born and raised in Manchester. Over the last 15 years I lived in Newmarke t Suffolk. Here I exhibited my Art work in many exhibitions in Suffolk\, N orfolk and Cambridgeshire.\n\nI was involved in a Community Project HORSE ABOUT NEWMARKET (Only For Life). This Project raised 28\,000 for charity.\ n\nI have always been a very creative person and always had my sketch book at hand. My imergry shines through on the canvas. I mainly work with acry lics\, and adore colour. I am passionate about my Art work and love being in my studio. People say have a very unique style. I say to them\, yes it' s the Jac Butt stayed.\n\nI paint what I see from my environment and from personal experiences. The painting\, Born Too Soon (not for sale)\, is a t ribute to my son Oliver Wall work\, who was born too soon in 1999.\n\nI ha ve recently relocated to this beautiful city\, Chester. Here I will remain to stay and develop my art further on my most recent work of my little pe ople and houses (houses are homes). In this work I have taken my mind back to my childhood memories. There is more scope for me to develop this them e of work'.\n\nAbout Victoria Bryan\n\nMy recent practice explores the vis ual connections found between human\, animal and plant anatomy\, and the w ays in which each living structure can be viewed as a victim of its own mo rtality. My work investigates how traditional forms of artwork\, specifica lly still life and vanitas\, can be reconstructed in order to modernise an d challenge the connotations surrounding them. Through their composition\, and the amalgamation of contemporary and classical concepts\, these drawi ngs are able to present the natural condition in an unnatural format\, as the real becomes surreal and each form of plant life is inevitably subject ed to decay and death.\n\nThe suspension of organic imagery on white backg rounds is essential to the construction of these artworks\, as they become isolated from their original context and are presented in a timeless stat e of decay. The contrast additionally serves to imitate the traditional me dical sketches historically used to provide insight into the functions of the human body.\n\nBy mostly drawing from my own imagination\, I aim to no t only retain the investigative and instinctive properties associated with drawing\, but also to inject a fictitious element into my art\, exposing the viewer to a realm of nature that is both beautiful and engaging yet\, as the familiar is rendered uncanny\, is subsequently disconcerting. The r esulting disjointed narratives are initially intended to appear ambiguous\ ; it is not until you look closely that the anatomical associations begin to emerge. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/11/unnamed-1-1.jpg LOCATION:Chester Arts Centre\, 132 Northgate Street\, Chester\, CH1 2HT\, C hester\, United Kingdom GEO:53.192572;-2.89248 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=132 Northgate Street\, Ches ter\, CH1 2HT\, Chester\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cheste r Arts Centre:geo:53.192572,-2.89248 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR