WILLIAM TUCK

Carter&Gallagher / October 2007

22 Uppper Grosvenor Street
London W1

"The rise of the neo renaissance"

There is a shift of emphasis going on with a small group of young English painters. Jonathan McLeod, Gavin Nolan, John Stark, David Hain and Will Tuck.

This new generation, educated, technical, skillful and highly articulate delve in to personal psyches raid history paintings and work with knowledge and skills of a past age. What sets these guys apart from other painters and artists of today is their informed knowingness and highly developed skills. For their paintings are about now and are highly contemporary.

Will Tuck's canvases are entirely made by using spray paint. A graduate from The Royal Academy Schools he will be having his first solo show at CARTER&GALLAGHER in October. William Tuck's paintings are very loosely based around old master paintings and subjects, especially involving classical mythology. He often bases the composition on an existing painting and sets up tableaux with cheap toys and other accessories, which are photographed and then painted. These are fantasy worlds mixing hi and lo culture and painted wholly using an airbrush. Slick, fast imagery immaculately executed. A blonde girl,semi clad erotic amongst cherubs and plastic toys,

William Tuck completed his Masters at The Royal Academy Schools in 2005

Exhibitions:

Carter&Gallagher Gallery London October 2007 solo exhibition
‘Artistic Vandals’, Nomoregrey Gallery, London, October 2006
‘Transcription’, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London, Aug-Sep 2006
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, June-Sep 2006
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June-Aug 2006
‘Fantasy Stories’, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London, Dec 2005-Jan 2006
‘Three Graduates’ Marksman Gallery, Reading, Nov-Dec 2005
‘Retrospective’, Hills Road College, Cambridge, July 2005
Royal Academy Diploma Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 2005
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June-Aug 2005
‘The Superlative Show’ ‘A’ Gallery, London, September 2004
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June-Aug 2004
‘Premiums’ Interim Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 2004
‘Not The Turner Prize’, The Mall Gallery, London, July 2003
‘Noumena,’ Studio Voltaire, London, February 2002
Graduates Show, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Aug-Sep 2001
‘Recent Graduates’, ‘A’ Gallery, London, July-Aug 2001
BA(hons) Degree Show, Wimbledon School of Art, London, June 2001