Profile


Born: East London  26 / 2 / 74

Nationality: British

Statement

Will Ayres explores ideas about perception and recognition through the use of documentation, focusing on the integration of the narrative with everyday objects and collective information. Throughout his work he looks to question our response to a singular captured moment as a recollection based on nostalgia. Ayres takes a photo, video or film still as a starting point. He catches fragments of images to reform, reinterpret and further fictionalize the represented idea. As he experiments with the original he detaches the picture from it's original meaning, finishing with a new recording of reality. These images exist as reconstructed moments of everyday life. Their transformation into pieces of art puts emphasis on the process of the work, in order to deconstruct and reinvent the image. Creating possible layers of reality, which remain on a border between representation and private memory. It is an idea of something being fixed in the world. Taking something from the fluctuating sea of culture and life that we know as 'the present' and then fixing it so that it communicate in a different time and place. Resulting in snap shot mementos that depict moments of a prelude or aftermath , serving as memories in a contemporary postmodern society.

Selected Bibliography

  • "Intentional Abstraction" La Galerie, London 10
  • Roma Art Fair 09
  • "F**k Art, Lets Love!" East End Arts Club, London 09
  • "The One Ton Show" East End Arts Club, London 08
  • Vanessa Suchar Contemporary Salon (Group Show) 08
  • Featured in article by Michele Robecchi ( 20 Years of the Groucho Club) of ‘Contemporary’ Magazine issue 82, 2006
  • Auction of works for ‘The Wave Foundation’  in Northern Ireland 06
  • Feature with selected works in ‘A Celebration of 20 years of the Groucho Club” anthology book, published December 05
  • The Groucho Club, London, 05
  • Eyestorm, London,  03
  • The Groucho Club, London, 03
  • Nominated for The Jerwood Painting Prize, 02
  • The Vedovi Gallery, Brussels 02 (Group exhibition, artists: Ayres, Bernier, Gursky, Mouffe, Ruscha, Testino, Warhol)
  • Nylon Gallery, London, 99
  • J Haworth Trust Award, 98
  • Phillip Connard Travel Award, 98
  • Fishmongers Company Bursary Award, 97
  • The City and Guilds of London Art School, 95-98
  • Central St Martins School of Art, 93-94
  • Various works in Private Collections. inc. Private Collectors, Mr&Mrs Pierre Lagrange

Article from 'Contemporary' Magazine.

Issue: 82, 2006

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Article from Evening Standard Magazine, Frieze Art Fair Issue, 16th October 09.

'The Art Gangs of London'

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