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Joshua Armitage (b. Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, 1986) graduated from Manchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and lives and works in London. Notable exhibitions include The Good Intent in 2024 at Guest Gallery, Brooklyn, USA, a presentation at Sunday Painter gallery as part of Condo 2020, curated by Lulu gallery, Mexico City ...
Meet Joshua Armitage. Joshua Armitage, born and raised in Shawville Quebec, obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in 2007 and his Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2009 from Carleton University. Josh first joined a mechanical engineering research team, focusing his efforts on computer aided design and numerical stress analysis.
- What Are The Major Themes You Pursue in Your Work?
- What Was The Best Advice Given to You as An Artist?
- Prefer to Work with Music Or in Silence?
- Who Are Your Favorite Writers?
My work is informed by my own past or to be more exact, how my own life experience has affected the way I see the world now. I try to pursue a notion of quietness and calm within my pictures, looking for subjects that would normally be overlooked. I also like to work in the space between observation and invention, intertwining images of observation...
I was told once that however much you experiment, you must also give yourself rules. This is very simple but really difficult. I think the most influential advice came from my drawing tutor Martin Morris. His classes taught me to see without over thinking, maybe the most essential thing in my work.
I work most of the time without music. My studio is next to a train station so it is never silent, but I quite like that kind of background noise. In a city there are always sounds and I find that they are as inspiring as seeing things sometimes. I like the sound of planes passing or bits of overheard conversation.
I don’t know what my favorite writer would be but my favorite book is probably Down and Out in Paris and Londonby George Orwell or For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway. I really like Kafka. I like writers who can make something interesting out of moments in life when nothing is happening. Art and Instinctby Roy Oxlade is a useful book too.
Josh shares some of the drawing secrets he's collected over the last 10 year... Part 2. Taj talks creativity with London-based drawing teacher, Josh Armitage.
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Secrets of Seeing presented by London Drawing Group LDG are excited to bring a brilliant series of online classes with artist Joshua Armitage - Secrets of Seeing. We believe that learning the ...
Joshua Armitage, Malcolm Bradley, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Julie Maurin, Holly Mills & Siggi Sekira “Hope” is the thing with feathers. 18 September - 23 October 2021
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The exhibition will celebrate its first year at dept.con.temporary. It’s Real Outside is a part of Deptford X Festival fringe 2022. 16 Sep – 1 Oct dept.con.temporary, Deptford High Street, London, SE8 3NT
