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Keith Ashcroft
Contemporary painter, Manchester, UK
Oil on canvas, 2020 61x76cm £1500 Highly Commended at the Beep Painting Prize 2020
Oil on canvas 40x50cm £1000
Oil on canvas 40x50cm £1000
Oil on canvas 40x50cm £1000
Oil on canvas 48x61cm £1500
Oil on canvas over board 48x60cm £1500
Oil on Paper 41x31cm £600
Oil on canvas 50x70cm £1500
About the Artist
Born 1977 in St Helens, Merseyside
Lives and works in Salford, Greater Manchester
Keith Ashcroft's practice is routed in the practicalities of process and the embodiment of time, dealing with the painterly process of representing ambiguous and nostalgic internal spaces. Through the materiality of process – laying paint down on a surface – these spaces are reconfigured and interrupted by elements of abstraction. Paint is first applied using traditional methods as a foundation, until a point – different in each painting – when rules are subverted and the painting gains a contemporaneous independency. Whilst originating from found or donated photographs the activity of painting challenges the photographic moment of documentation locating the pictured content in flux, somewhere between the past and the present.
Recent Exhibitions
2018 The New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2018, Mall Galleries, London
2018 The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition 2018, Mall Galleries, London
2018 'Looking Forward', Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
Education
2000 - 2003 'Drawlab', St Helens College
1997 - 2000 BA (Hons) Degree Fine Art, Manchester School of Art
1995 - 1997 Btech National Diploma Art & Design, St Helens College