Will Teather is well-known for creating arresting images that reveal a unique imagination combined with a mastery of traditional skills. The artist’s figurative paintings and drawings often depict curious characters caught up in uncanny situations. Influenced by magical realism and lifting motifs from diverse sources such as Flemish still life, baroque art and Weimar painters, the artist enters into direct conversation with the history of painting with the aim of bringing a contemporary sensibility to the table.
Over the last ten years, his work has featured in over 100 gallery exhibitions internationally, with recent exhibitions including as a guest artist for Artrooms London, Artwars Miami and as a finalist in the London Contemporary Art Prize.
Following on from his childhood years in rural Norfolk where he was surrounded by religious imagery and books on historical painting, Will’s knowledge of contemporary art was refined through periods of study at Central St Martins and Chelsea College of Art & Design. In 2012, as a recipient of the Ruth Katzman Scholarship, he visited New York, where he took part in The Vytlacil Campus Artist-in-Residence Program. He has more recently been Artist-in- Residence for Norwich Arts Centre and an Associate Lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts.
Directions: If you stand facing the main entrance to the Cathedral and look left across the playground, you will find the studio. Helpers on the gate will guide you.
Parking: There is free parking at the school. Helpers on the gate will guide you. The car park closes at 10pm so please make sure you leave before then.
Refreshments: Wine and soft drinks will be available after the talk. All attendees are very welcome to stay and socialise.
Members: £5. Non-Members: £8.
UEA, NUA, City College and Norwich School students FREE!