Three Painters: Talks on Crivelli
In this series of talks, three Birmingham-based painters – Graham Chorlton, Claudette Holmes and Rafal Zar – bring their unique perspectives to a contemporary interpretation of Carlo Crivelli’s Renaissance paintings. They each focus on an aspect of Crivelli’s practice, including his choice of materials, spatial illusions and religious subjects. Setting up a dialogue with one of their own paintings, the artists demonstrate how an engagement with art history allows them to address current social and cultural change.
Graham Chorlton is a painter who has worked in Birmingham for many years. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, including Some Domestic Incidents, Prague Biennale; three solo exhibitions at Cross Gallery Dublin; John Moore’s Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool; Royal Academy Summer Show; Midlands Arts Centre Birmingham; New Art Gallery Walsall; various venues in Bordeaux; and many more. Chorlton’s work is held in a number of public and private collections. His practice has always concerned itself with the personal in relation to urban space. Chorlton is course leader for MA in Painting, Coventry University.
Following a reading of the linear perspective used in Carlo Crivelli’s The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius (1486), and the use of architecture in picture making, Chorlton presents on his own painting Edge of Town #2 (2015).
Other talks in the series:
Claudette Holmes on Virgin and Child (1480)
Friday 8 April, 3-4pm
Rafal Zar on The Vision of the Blessed Gabriele (ca. 1489)
Friday 13 May, 3-4pm