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Oliver Teagle's award-winning work featured in Evolver Magazine
Thursday, 1 March, 2018 — BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking Technical Demonstrator Oliver Teagle has been recognised by the Royal West of England Academy for his latest collection of work.
<h5><a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-painting-drawing-printmaking" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking</a> Technical Demonstrator Oliver Teagle has recently been featured in <a href="http://www.evolver.org.uk/magazine/latest-issue" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Evolver Magazine</a> following the success of his latest award-winning work.</h5>
<p>Oliver’s piece ‘Jet’ is a mixture of oil and acrylic on laser engraved board, created using the in-house facilities of <a href="https://fablabplymouth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fab Lab Plymouth</a>.</p>
<p>First on display to the public at the Royal West of England Academy 165th Open Exhibition in Bristol, this is where Oliver was awarded the Evolver Wessex Artist Award by RWA President Stewart Geddes.</p>
“This recognition has affirmed to me the importance of experimentation and having the confidence to continue taking risks within my practice"
– Oliver Teagle, BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking Technical Demonstrator
<p><a href="http://www.thebowiegallery.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Bowie Gallery</a> in Totnes also showed a collection of Oliver’s latest work for his solo exhibition ‘Un-Revealed’, a showcase of resin layered paintings, darkroom photogram prints and laser etched paintings.</p>
<p>Oliver said, “Over the last year I developed a process which combined laser etching and traditional painting techniques. The RWA Open was the first time these artworks had been exhibited so it was particularly rewarding to win the Wessex Artist Prize."</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.oliverteagle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">See more of Oliver's innovative work on his website</a></li><li><a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-painting-drawing-printmaking" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Explore our BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking programme</a></li></ul>