Artists Amy Dury and Philip Maltman talk with curator Phin Jennings about their 2021 art exhibition

The most accurate map of the world is the world itself. The maps that we use in everyday life deliberately exclude some details and emphasise others. By design, they are imperfect representations of the real thing. Paintings are the same. The Indian Ocean; a freeze-frame from a long-forgotten home video; a Sonic Youth song; a detail from an 18th Century capriccio. These are some of the subjects that Amy Dury and Philip Maltman’s paintings represent, but they are not what this exhibition is about. Rather, it is about the act of painting as representation-making, its limits and its possibilities.
As a practice, painting stops far short of perfectly representing its subjects. They are obscured by the artist’s materials, memory and imagination. With this in mind, both Dury and Maltman explore and test painting’s creative possibilities and boundaries. As Maltman says of his Sonic Youth series, “the
paintings become about the painting and not the songs.” Guided by Dury and Maltman, this exhibition is a tour of personal narratives in the form of paint on canvas, board and paper. The artists act as unreliable mediators between their subjects and the viewer, choosing where to omit and where to add details. They are not answerable to the true nature of the things that they paint, but to their own private and individual impressions of them.
Rise Art’s goal is to shine a light on the most exciting, talented and culturally relevant artists of our time. We work directly with a curated roster of emerging, mid-career and established artists across our online sales platform and physical gallery to show and champion their work online and in person.
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Philip Maltman and Amy Dury, Rise Art’s curator Phin Jennings discuss their practices, some of their reflections on painting and what we can expect from the work in the show and the ideas behind it.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - How do you find your subjects?
03:22 - Philip Maltman elaborates on his Sonic Youth series and its connection to the band.
04:50 - What role does music and titles play in the artists creative process?
07:58 - The artists talk about the element of nostalgia as a theme in their works.
13:38 - What is your job as an artist?

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Really enjoyed the interview.👍👍

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Thank you so much! 🥰

[@BridgetteHalljournalist]

Great video, how long is the exhibition on for?

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Thank you for your question! The exhibition is on from September 23rd to November 5th. Look forward to seeing you there! :)