Phyu Gordon | Rhiannon Evans – Oxfordshire Artweeks

254 Phyu Gordon | Rhiannon Evans

Region: Banbury – North & West

Artform: Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting, Paper, Sculpture

Phyu Gordon and Rhiannon Evans met whilst sharing the unique studio space of The Old Mission Hall, Sibford Gower, Banbury, Oxfordshire, a building long associated with the local Society of Friends community. Their common concerns are the natural world, local and global culture, heritage and memory.
Phyu is originally from Burma and her practice focuses on portrait paintings especially in water colour and the specialist technique of lacquer painting which she learnt in Vietnam. She will also be showing this process of making. She paints local landscape, natural images and still life in oil and acrylic as well.
Over the past 20 years she has lived in different countries and created paintings that reflect her experiences of people and cultures.
Rhiannon’s practice involves remediation of pre-existing imagery to make paintings and drawings on semi-transparent materials. Her work takes on varying forms; from loose, unbound, unframed leaves, 3 – dimensional collaged sculptures and dynamic triptychs and references diverse historical traditions, archival methods and materials.
Her recent works engage with ideas of choice, possibility and the blurring of boundaries between technology, the natural world and community. Her aims is to encourage reflection on contemporary themes where she senses confusion and conflict in everyday life.