publication – Shieldfield Art Works

Commentary

26th April 2017 By Matthew Hearn

In Present : Past Dave Tweedy has developed an increasingly pictorial language within his paintings. Drawing — literally painting — from personal and common memory, Tweedy interweaves and overlays historical and contemporary signifiers to create new-found (dis-)orderings of reality. At these intersections of people and paint, abstract and figurative languages conflate; familiar imagery is altered, […]

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Now and Not Yet: Welcome to Planet Earth

25th December 2015 By Shieldfield Art Works (SAW)

Reflections for Advent. No. 25 Image above: David McCulloch, Welcome to Planet Earth 2012 “The Word became Flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 (NIV) no sparkle here no sparkle there […]

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Now and Not Yet: Long Winter

19th December 2015 By Shieldfield Art Works (SAW)

Reflections for Advent, No. 19 LONG WINTER White slides to clear, translates late morning. The milk of mist slides at sky’s end to clefted heaps of snow: they shift, blot into pavements where pocks of lichen splay, greening the day. I leave the cups and bowls, their fatty film, the taste of yesterday, and peer […]

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Now and Not Yet: Mini Expectations

18th December 2015 By Shieldfield Art Works (SAW)

Reflections for Advent, No. 18 Image above: Kuba Ryniewicz, Mini Expectations 2015 All of our lives are in God’s hand, nothing is beyond the tenderness of God’s touch. Not the things that we hold up high for all to see. Not the things we hold close in the quiet of our hearts. God knows all […]

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Now and Not Yet: What Next?

11th December 2015 By Shieldfield Art Works (SAW)

Reflections for Advent, No. 11 Image above: Ruth H, What Next? 2015 I don’t know what to do now. What next?… When I posted this question on Facebook, I got 22 ‘likes’ in 12 hours (1). Not bad. This collective empathy for uncertainty and indecision was echoed in the comments: ‘Join the club!!’ said one […]