Chuck Elliott
Chuck Elliott has been working as an artist since he graduated in 1992. Originally working from a series of studios in and around Soho and the East End of London, he now runs a busy studio in Bristol. Over recent years his work has been included in shows at the Royal College, the Royal Academy, London’s Southbank Centre and on Cork Street.
Chuck’s practice is concerned with a fluid investigation of colour, movement and light. Free form shapes are cropped, recoloured and enhanced as if editing in a camera view. Hovering between print making and photography, these pure colour fields retain a clarity that belies the source. Working with digital technology, images are created from rendered sculptural forms, edited and glazed, and produced in series of metallic Lambda prints, often Diasec mounted. Exploring a continuous line in fluid, geometrical colour abstraction, using maths, nature and science as the basis for a profound exploration of space, geometry, line and colour.
Chuck Elliott has been making digital images since the late eighties. An early adopter in the digital revolution, he claims to have used the first Apple computer imported to the UK.His work coalesces a desire to use the latest digital technologies with a strong sense of his place in the tradition of colour space and abstract geometrical art, spanning back to Vasarely, Riley, Gabo and Kandinsky.