"Through the desire to represent a reality, one can hope for something resembling truth but it is one's own responsibility to choose that truth" - Jasper Johns
Working from her studio in rural Suffolk, Abbie Schug has established a studio practice that consciously utilises traditional painterly techniques to create images of quasi-beings; within which, she acts as a translator. Creating (painted) images in reference to non-aesthetic, (photographic) images of unidentified beings naturally mutated into partially solarised forms. The agency of these images, follows the conscious effort to confront the witness - purposefully introducing distance - to aid recognition of the ever-present boundary between physical and image-based realms.
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS
TEXTS
2018 - 2019 MA Fine Art. University of Northampton
2015 - 2018 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Drawing. University of Northampton
2020 MK CALLING 2020. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2019 CONVERGENCE. MA Fine Art Degree Show. University of Northampton
2019 MA FINE ART STUDIO SHOW. Avenue Campus, University of Northampton
2019 INTERMISSION. Grosvenor Centre, Northampton
2019 QUICKLY MOVING. NN Contemporary, Northampton
2018 CVAN PLATFORM GRADUATE AWARD. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2018 RISING STARS. Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth
2018 FREERANGE. Truman's Brewery, Brick Lane, London
2018 DEGREE SHOW. Avenue Campus, University of Northampton, Northampton
2017 ROOTS. Avenue Gallery, Northampton
2018 [Shortlisted] CVAN Platform Graduate Award. Nominated by MK Gallery
2019 THE ARTIST AND HERSELF: A DIALOGUE ON REFLECTION. WithoutEnd Symposium