Why Blair Zaye
The piece
Mech Quanta Eye
Single colour Screen Print, 35 x 35 cm, Edition of 30, Signed & Numbered
Bought directly from Blair after
Taken from http://www.blairzaye.com/info/
Blair Zaye
Biography
I am a New Zealand artist, with a Bachelor of Visual Arts and have been based in London since 2008.
As an artist I endure to express the internal, ideas and beliefs of implicit society and culture, creating and uncovering utopian ideas, ideologies for a better self and society using social commentary which bares all.
Often attempting to describe thought through text to expose internal dialogues and well known secrets which reflect on social and economic conditions. Using my own life situation as a microcosm for the outside world. Psycho babbling while describing the state of the world and states of minds on private and universal levels. Showing parallels between the ‘real’ world and the world of the mind.
Bringing a spiritual philosophy and divinity into art, treating art as religion and a life philosophy to encourage others to release what they have inside them in an artistic manner (whether music, poetry, art). Advocating a sense of calm and fulfilment through expression, purging inner demons and self adjudicated sins to empty and clear the mind of worry with paint release it as it comes to mind.
Using art as a form of meditation and self realisation, as the vessel for a journey inside and through myself, trying to find something more or capture something I’ve found already. Diving into a world of artistic existentialism to look for and find answers and universal truths Sometimes I wonder if I am trying to tell myself something that I have not yet come to realise. I catch a glimpse of my true self in a pure form during the painting process and then use the produced painting as a window to relay it back to others.
As an artist I work with a variety of mediums, my current practice focuses on abstract paintings; enduring to express ideas and beliefs implicit in society and culture while reflecting on the internal and eternal world of artistic existentialism. Though with my installation work I create spaces which defy reality in the sense that you become completely immersed in the parallel reality of my creations.
I am available for commissions, installations, exhibitions, events and would be interested in collaborating on bigger projects with other artists.
Education:
Auckland University – 2005
Bachelor of Visual Arts
Manukau School of Visual Arts – 2002
Certificate of Visual Arts
Residencies:
Speed Of Colour, Long Stories, Perm, Russia, May, 2011
Awards:
Square Mile Magazine Art Prize, April, 2014
Future Exhibitions:
London, TBA, February 2015
Phing Thing, Ben Oakley Gallery, London, TBA, 2014
Well Hung Gallery Christmas Show, London, TBA, December 2014
Well Hung Gallery, London, 6 November – 3 December 2014
Selected Exhibitions:
Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA, 21 September – 21 October, 2014
A MASSIVE MINIATURES GROUP SHOW, Ben Oakley Gallery, London, July 31 – August 31, 2014
Bespoken , Façade, London, 5 March – 7 March, 2014
Open Wall, Façade, London, 26 February – Friday 28 February, 2014
Middle Distance, Façade, London, 19 February – Friday 21 February, 2014
Out Of The Gutter, Façade, London, 12 February – Friday 14 February, 2014
NO FLAKES, Ben Oakley Gallery, London, 13 December 2013 – 31 January, 2014
Group Show, Cult Mountain, London, 7 November, 2013 – 4 December 2013
Quanta, Breathing Room, London, 13 October, 2013 – 30 December 2013
Memorabilia Charity Art Exhibition, London, 6-14 July, 2013
CONTENTIOUS, London, 15 – 17 March, 2013
TEN, Cultivate Gallery, London, 14 – 20 February, 2013
BACK IN BLACK, Cultivate Gallery, London, 31 January – 12 February, 2013
MUSIKA, Breathing Room, London, 13 October, 2012
BOX, Breathing Room, London, 9 June, 2012
Rips, Splits, Tears And Drips, Breathing Room, London, 21 April, 2012
WOMB, Drop Collective, INSIDE, Blank Space, Manchester, 30 March – 29 April, 2012
Urban Curations, Netil House, London, 3 December, 2011 – 3 January, 2012
Affordable Art Fair, Gallery Violet, London 27 – 30 October, 2011
ANIMA MUNDI, London 10 – 11 October, 2011
Microscopic Culture, Iowa, USA, September, 2011
Silhouette Community Project, Fountayne Head, London, August, 2011
Terrace 6th Annual, London, 27 of August, 2011
Free Install, Breathing Room, London, 23 June, 2011
Light Bite, Light Night 2011, Nottingham, 18 February, 2011
Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery, London, 1 October – 12 November, 2010
Cross My Art, Art And Escape Gallery, London,30 September-14 October, 2010
Take Away, The Outside World Gallery, London,13-15 August, 2010
Interrobang, The Book Club, London, 19 July, 2010
Drips, Splits, Tears and Rips, Greenwich Picture House, London, 1 May – 30 June, 2010
100Sqft 2, London, 28 February-6 March , 2010
MIRROR/WINDOW at LOUIS V. E.S.P, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 28 January, 2010
Tate the Biscuit, Shoreditch Townhall Basement, London, 3-6 December, 2009
100Sqft, London, 22-28 November, 2010
Identicons, LCC, London, 2-6 November 2009
Impossible Exchange at Frieze Art Fair, London,15 – 18 October, 2009
Private View, Black Lab Manchester, 4 October – 1 November, 2009
Showcase at Café 1001, London, 30 September, 2009
TimeTimeTime at Terrace Studios, London, 5 September, 2009
Noise of Art at East End Arts Club, London, September 3 – 20, 2009
The Contemporary 5 at Red Gate Gallery, London, 14 – 27 August, 2009
North By North Western Festival, Wigan, 1 – 8 August, 2009
Going Under Ground at Village Underground, London, 31 of July, 2009
Press and Publications:
Yack Magazine, September, 2014
http://yackmagazine.com/2014/09/19/fine-art-friday-jenna-jardine-and-the-heat-reactive-mural/
Harringay Online, September, 2014
http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topics/heat-reactive-wall-mural-in-the-warehouse-district?xg_source=activity
Square Mile Magazine, April, 2014
http://www.squaremile.com/magazine/
New Street Art, Febuary, 2013
http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Street-Art-Claude-Crommelin/dp/1908126515/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352484390&sr=8-1
The Gentlemans Club, March, 2011
http://thegentlemensclub.co/o-v-e-r-g-r-o-u-n-d/
Silent City, March, 2011
http://www.silentcity.org.uk
Openned Zine, Issue#3, September, 2010
http://opennedpoetry.squarespace.com/epubs/2010/9/4/openned-zine-3.html
EyeLust Magazine, Issue#3, April, 2010
http://eyelustmagazine.com/
Susan Magzine, Issue#1, March, 2010
http://susanmagazine.co.uk/
Identicons Magazine, November, 2009
http://identiconarts.com/
LSD (London Street-Art Design) Magazine, Issue#2, September, 2009
http://www.londonstreetartdesign.com/
InLondon Magazine, July, 2009
www.inlondon.com
Press and Publications(with Drop Collective)
Creative Times, April, 2012
http://www.creativetimes.co.uk/articles/we-like-inside-blank-media-collective
Creative Tourist, April, 2012
http://www.creativetourist.com/news-culture/news-and-blog/event-radar-april-2012
Cultural Shenanigans, April 2012
http://www.culturalshenanigans.co.uk/2012/04/29/inside-at-blankspace/
Manchesters Finest, April, 2012
Mancky, March, 2012
http://www.mancky.co.uk/?p=7548
Tendenzroman, March, 2012
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