Tim Skinner

Artist Statement

My work explores the visual beauty generated by sound, documenting its effects upon water. Started in 2004 with an interactive installation that allowed viewers to create any sound they desired via a microphone, this sound was then shown manipulating a shallow pool of water. After several re-jigs of the design in 2006 the piece and the aesthetics created became the corner stone of my work, brushing aside my more challenging personal, dark painting work. Watching the ripples shimmer across a black pool I felt a very strong feeling of visual solace, something I craved in the real world. Beautiful, ambiguous and foreign landscape, all generated by man-made sound manipulating a natural body. Documenting my installation through photography and video has given rise to further visual explorations. With video I can manipulate the visuals within the fourth dimension, whereas the photography has helped me to understand its silent beauty. Now, in 2008, the photography work is visually informing new painting work.

Also in 2008 the video work is helping me to take the visuals away from their original grounded meaning. The experimental film ‘Possessed’, is working with this very visual concept.

My artistic influences over the years have leaned towards artists, who create visually stunning, emotionally charged pieces, artists such as Turner, Rembrandt, and Viola. Also artists exploring the visual beauty of sound, a huge influence has been the Russian painter Wassilly Kandinsky. The installation artist Susan Hiller has also added to my aesthetic understanding.



Studio 14,
Cuckoo Farm Studios, Boxted Rd, Colchester,
CO4 5HH.
01206 843530
07716313671
tim.skinner@btinternet.com
www.timskinner.co.uk

D.O.B 19/11/1980
Hatfield Peverel, Essex, England.



Education


B.A.Hons, 2003, Fine Art, Colchester School of Art and Design

BTEC Foundation Diploma, 2000, Fine Art, Colchester School of Art and Design


Graduate scholarship award, 2003-2004, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester.



Exhibition History
Solo Exhibitions

2007

Sonic Ripples, Hector Croot, Estate Agents, Colchester, Essex.

2006

Echoing Ur Sound, Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.

2004

Sonic Circled, Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Sonic Circles, Hay Gallery, Colchester, Essex.




Exhibition History
Group Exhibitions

2008

Season 3, Online Video Exhibition, Outcasting.org
Mona Lisa project running alongside “Ours Mine Yours”, Essex University Gallery
“Long Established Mediums Harmonized with New Media”, The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Life Gallery, Colchester.
“An Emotional Journey”, Mansfield Museum, Mansfield, Notts.
“Posted3”, Poster Hoardings, Cork, Ireland.
“InterAlia”, Abandoned shop, Chelmsford, Essex.

2007

“Mini Print 2007”, Artlink Gallery, Hull, Kingston-upon-Hull.
“Winter Lights”,The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Video Art Showcase 2007, St Mary, Key Arts, Ipswich, Suffolk.
“Worldwide Moving Image 3”, E32, New York City, USA.
“Enclosure”, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
“Replenish”, Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
Open Studios Exhibition, Life Gallery Cafe, Colchester, Essex.
Open Studios, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex.
"Prelude" Art Fair, Spitalfields, London.

2006

“Winter Lights”, The Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Essex.
Open Studios Xmas Show, Life Gallery Café, Colchester, Essex.
Open Studios Show, Life Gallery Café, Colchester, Essex.

2005

Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, The Babylon Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
“Winter Lights”, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Life Gallery Cafe, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, The Pond Gallery,Snape Maltings, Suffolk.
Cuckoo Farm studios Show, The Minories, Colchester, Essex.

2004

“Winter Lights”, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Inkpen Downie, Colchester, Essex.
Outside, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex.
Print Show, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Buckenham Gallery, Southwold, Suffolk.

2003

Winter Lights, Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Free Range, Graduate Show, Old Truman Brewery, London.
Graduate Show, Colchester School of Art, Essex.
Untitled Show, Life Gallery Cafe, Colchester, Essex.


Future

Prelude Art Fair, Spitalfields, London, June 2008
‘Tiny Little Echoes’, Sound Curator, Artselector.com, June-July 2008
Surrounds: Outside 2oo8, Curator, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Aug-Sept 2008
Sound:Space, The Digital Media Centre, Bracknell, Sept-Nov 2008
“Over Bakke og Dal......”, Mosting Hus, Copenhagen, Oct-Nov 2008
‘Fallen (going out with a bang)’ - Residency Project with Writtle College and CADE, 2008 – ongoing.


Website

My own website was designed and created by myself, originally in 2001, but has overtime evolved and changed address.
http://www.timskinner.co.uk/

The Lloyd Gill Gallery
http://www.thelloydgillgallery.com/

InterAlia, Exhibition website, 2008
http://www.interaliaexhibition.co.uk/

Deep East Arts, East Anglia Artists Directory, 2008
http://www.deepeastarts.com/

Axis, Artist database, 2008
http://www.axisweb.org/

Posted3, Online exhibition, 2008
http://www.postedproject.com/

HudsonMackay, Artists’ collective (commercial gallery). 2007
http://www.hudsonmackay.com/

Cuckoo Farm Studios, Artist studio group, 2007
http://www.cuckoofarmstudios.org.uk/

Talent Database, Artist database, 2006
http://www.talentdatabase.com/

Myspace, Social network, 2003
http://www.myspace.com/

Echobelly, Band website, 2000-2002,
http://www.echobelly.com/