QUEEN'S PARK GALLERY
Alison Chapman- Andrew's
Collection 2010.
September 12 - October 2, 2010
Catalogues are available from the Queen' s Park Gallery
ALISON CHAPMAN-ANDREW'S ART
COLLECTOR'S STATEMENT
I can clearly remember my first purchase. We were at Pelican Gallery, looking at a bowl by Bill Grace which because it was a second was selling for $35. My mother in law was in favour:" Even if you use it for washing vegetables, you won't regret it". Now thirty years later I still use it for a fruit bowl. This was a difficult though small and hesitant first step. I remember when each one was bought or given as a gift by an artist friend.
I do not believe artists should swap pieces and I don't believe in art increasing in value (it usually keeps it), although that does happen rarely. One was the Golde White print I bought for $5, again at Pelican. Usually there is an immediate attraction to the piece I like best in an exhibition. Unfortunately it is often already sold, and because of my slowness , I go unrewarded, so significant artists are still not represented.
One of the most interesting aspects of collecting is "hanging ", arranging disparate works of art, once they are brought home. Apart from the balance of colour and shape, coincidences of interior shapes occur and completely differing pieces talk to each other. If my latest purchase fights everything, then it finds a niche on its own. Others are put together by style or subject: so nudes are grouped together.
This is not a true collection as such. It has no theme although it reflects exhibitions held in Barbados from thelate 1970s, through the 1980s to the present. It is governed by my spare cash, usually following a sale of my own art work, and by the small space I live in. So, many of the paintings and sculptures are miniatures. This is balanced on the walls by my own paintings which are often large.
Tie-dye and printed lengths of cloth were made into clothes, the jewellery is on my dressing table in little boxes which I forgot to include, cushions are on chairs, and the list will keep growing. That is what happens..............
imperceptively one becomes addicted to buying art.
Alison Chapman-Andrews
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"Constants and Waves"
group mixed media exhibition
Aweipo Gallery, The Crane Village, The Crane, St. Philip
April 24th- August 31, 2010
aweipogallery@yahoo.com +1 (246) 271 2839
Curators: Juliana Innis and Aurelia Walcott
opposites 1 (above) sold
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Barbados Museum and Historical Society
" Originals"
an exclusive show of works by museum members
Oct 2010- Jan 2011
MAHOGANY LEAVES - sold
24 x 24 ins
GARDEN ARCH - sold
9 X 9 INS
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CARIBBEAN MOSAIC
Alison Chapman-Andrews, Heidi Berger, Bill Grace
in the"Meet the Fantastic Art Series
January 6 -29, 2011
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre
Bridgetown, Barbados
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HY3JJCWY1o
cosmic circles 48 x 184 ins acrylic on 3 canvases
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Inaugural CaFA Fair
Caribbean Fine Art Fair and Symposium
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre
Bridgetown, Barbados
March 31 - April 3, 2011
exhibition April 3 -May 29.2011
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