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photo by Di Setch 2008. TERRY SETCH
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"Drink Me (detail)", 2001
mixed media
243x61cm
"Beach Detritus 2", 2001
digital print on plastic
60x50cm
"Panel3", internettide@2000 (detail)
digital print on linen
280x466cm(artist's collection)
Terry Setch was born in 1936 in London, but has lived in Penarth/Cardiff since the 1970s. From 1950 to 1954 he studied Fine Art at the Sutton & Cheam School of Art, and from 1956 to 1960 at the Slade School of Art, London.
Artist's Statement:"My art addresses what I am interested in. I get very excited when looking at superb painting, sculpture, architecture and design. I have a catholic taste and can enjoy art from cave painting to old and modern masters, but I also enjoy amateur art and mad art. When I see visually exciting colour and form in a mess or in a gutter, the absurdity of the excitement that it can cause, is interesting. Maybee I see things in a 'heightened' way, visually powerful objects or experiences can upset my balance. My beach paintings are about my observations within a chosen subject matter which is on my doorstep. That is important, it is where I live, about the place I live; romantic, geopgraphically, historically interesting. If one were to analyse the psychological elements of a painting, almost certainly aspects of the artist's personal life and history would be there" (quoted from Tony Curtis: 'Welsh Artists Talking' p.70)
Awards: 1968 National Eisteddfod of Wales Main Prizewinner, 1971 Welsh Arts Council Painting Award, 1978 Welsh Arts Council Major Artist Award, 1985 John Moores 14 prizewinner.
Commissions: 1972 Welsh Arts Council Commission award for Coleg Harlech, 1978 Print Commission National Eisteddfod of Wales.
International Links:
collections abroad=e.g. Museum of Modern Art Lodz/Poland;
exhibitions abroad=1967 "Young Britain" ICA touring exhibition New York & Los Angeles/USA (mixed); 1980-2 "The Probity of Art" touring exhib. Spain/Portugal/Turkey (mixed); 1981 XIII Festival International de la Peinture Cagnes-sur-Mer/France (mixed); 1981 Frans Wynan Gallery Vancouver/Canada (solo); 1981-2 "Cardiff Artists" Gallerie der Stadt Stuttgart/Germany (mixed); 1982 "13 British Artists..." touring exhib. Aachen, Mannheim, Braunschweig/Germany (mixed); "The 4th Biennale of Sydney" Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney/Australia (mixed); 1983 Christine Abrahams Gallery Melbourne/Australia (solo); 1989 "20th Century Welsh Art" touring exhib. to Japan (mixed); 1998 "Absolute Secret" McKee Gallery New York/USA (mixed);
