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Lot Essay
‘I need to make something I have never seen before but I recognise. I have glimpsed; a beautiful and unstable memory suspended on my retina’ (Naomi Frears).
Frears is not a modernist, her work is placed in her own thoughts where figures emerge and re-emerge in her painting, drawing and prints. They are inner landscapes of contemplation, memory and poetry. Elements arrive in her work intuitively, whether that be a figure or fragment of a landscape that have moved her in some way.
Naomi Frears (born 1963) works in Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives. From 1982-6 she completed a BA (Hons) at Sunderland College of Art, receiving the printmaking prize. Her work is numerous collections including: Wilson Collection, University College Falmouth, Falmouth Art Gallery, Sunderland University, Cornwall Council, Royal Cornwall Museum and Slaughter and May. Frears was winner of the SKETCH2013 Print Prize awarded by Rabley Contemporary.
Frears is not a modernist, her work is placed in her own thoughts where figures emerge and re-emerge in her painting, drawing and prints. They are inner landscapes of contemplation, memory and poetry. Elements arrive in her work intuitively, whether that be a figure or fragment of a landscape that have moved her in some way.
Naomi Frears (born 1963) works in Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives. From 1982-6 she completed a BA (Hons) at Sunderland College of Art, receiving the printmaking prize. Her work is numerous collections including: Wilson Collection, University College Falmouth, Falmouth Art Gallery, Sunderland University, Cornwall Council, Royal Cornwall Museum and Slaughter and May. Frears was winner of the SKETCH2013 Print Prize awarded by Rabley Contemporary.