Opus Underground

Chris Kettle: Edge of Reality

(17 Sep 2010 - 10 Aug 2010)

Chris Kettle's solo exhibition, Edge of Reality, reveals the artist's preoccupation with the Still Life genre. Kettle uses inanimate objects ordinarily associated with pure study; silverware, fruit and flowers, and uses them as a means with which to explore the many facets of human emotion. The artist reworks these classic symbols in his own distinctive, often dark and brooding style; first intricately painting these motifs then deliberately blurring and softening them, this lending them an emotional charge.  

Born in 1971 Chris Kettle graduated in 1994 with a BA (Hons) In Fine Art from Cardiff University. Chris Kettle has exhibited widely since graduating, with notable solo and group exhibitions in London, Newcastle, Brighton, Gstaad, Milan and Paris. In addition, Chris Kettle has shown with Opus Art at the Bridge art fair in New York, and at the SCOPE art fairs in Basel and Miami.

Chris Kettle's brand of Still Life has been critiqued widely, most notably by Art Review magazine, who stated that Kettle has turned the Still Life genre 'on its head'. His work has also been featured in The Guardian, The Sunday TImes' Style magazine and Art of England magazine. 

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