Max Naylor
Max Naylor’s drawings explore the relationship between external and internal spaces through a mixture of imagery made from memory and imagination. On this body of work he says,
“My visual memory is full of landscapes that are an invaluable resource when making work, I sometimes try to accurately represent a remembered view or take component parts to construct an imagined place. This seems to me a very natural process, the act of picking up a pen and marking out a skyline becomes almost an unconscious one.”
The use of differing levels of intensity is important in the images Max creates, both in terms of mark making and of decision making. He attempts to balance close detail and planned composition with expressive doodling and more instinctive artistic choices.
“I aim to try and evoke a sense of mystery, a glimpse into an internal world as in that tantalising moment we sometimes experience when we fall asleep, when tangible conscious thought, almost imperceptibly warps and shifts. Ideas somehow take on shape and form as we are delivered to the subconscious inner world, a place strange and unknowable yet so familiar.”
Max has made a drawing device that enables him to produce long scroll-drawings whilst traveling, the idea being to create a continuous visual diary. He has used it to illustrate a journey across North America as well as to document the nine months he spent in Berlin.
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2012 Post Graduate Course, The Royal Drawing School, London
1998 – 2001 University of Brighton, East Sussex
1997 – 1998 Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015 Headlands, Mercer Chance Gallery, London
2014 Betweenlands, Blain Southern, London
2013 Artists of the River Pageant, Pump House Gallery, London
2013 Re-Imagined Spaces, Bosse and Baum, London
2013 Memory and Desire, The Violet Hour, London
2013 RWS Contemporary Watercolour, London
2013 Artists of the Pageant, Turner’s House, Sandycombe Lodge, London
2012 Narrative, Antlers, Bradford
2012 Other Nature, Antlers, London
2011 Mindscapes, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham
2011 Uncanny Views, Antlers, Bristol
2006 The Jerwood Drawing Prize, touring exhibition
2004 House, Truro
2002 Pizza Express Contemporary Drawing Prize, London
2001 Cerebration, Brighton
2001 Triumph, Brighton
2001 Moot, Brighton
1998 Valico Sotto, Tuscanny
ART FAIRS
2013 AAF Bristol, Antlers Gallery, Bristol
2013 AAF Battersea, Antlers Gallery, London
2012 AAF Bristol, Antlers Gallery, Bristol
RESEDENCIES
2013 IIFA teaching and studio residency, Delhi and Modinagar, India
2012 Studio residency, Dumfries House, Scotland
TEACHING
2014-Present Tutor at Drawing School Central, The Royal Drawing School, London
2012-Present Tutor at The Royal Drawing Clubs, London
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Featured Artist in Sketch Your World by James Hobbs, Apple Press
2011 Illustrations and poster design for Graphic novel Whenever I Get Blown
Up I Think Of You by Molly Naylor, Nasty Little Press
PRIZES/AWARDS
2008 short-listed for the National Open Art Competition, Chichester
2006 short-listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, London
2002 short-listed for the Pizza Express Contemporary Drawing Prize, London
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Artist's Website
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