Russell Chater

Biography

Russell Chater is a London and Ramsgate based artist and graduate of the MA Fine Art course at Central Saint Martins. Chater has exhibited extensively in the UK and overseas and also co-curated a number of exhibitions. He is a qualified lecturer and have given talks on his practice in a range of Institutions as well as hosted / chaired artist critique sessions. Chater is also a former Co-Director of Dalston Underground Studios.

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Artist Statement

Masked out photographs; whitewashed windows; creating with erasers… Revelation and concealment and concealment as revelation. It all happens on and beyond these screens. Surface and depth. Space and time. Smoke (screens) and mirrors.

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The marks of another prompt thoughts around sign and symbol, gesture and mark making. Around authorship and intention; appropriation and absence. Who / where is the artist? Only a mannequin (a proxy?) might be found occupying these threshold spaces. A mute dummy that speaks: of display and desire and the gaze.

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Scenes are revealed: staged but empty. Transient spaces and transient states. Spot-lights and strip-lights illuminate the nothing that is everything. Contexts and meanings are lost and gained.

 

Materials and motifs emerge and recur. A vocabulary accumulates and ideas echo.

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https://www.russellchater.com/