Artist : Richard Nott
Title : Eolith
Medium : mixed media on panel
Size : 90 x 90 cm


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An Eolith is a flint like stone, thought by some to be artifacts - perhaps the earliest stone tools made through human manipulation of nature to serve need. Others believe them to be geofacts produced by nature without mans intervension. This ambiguous history perhaps alludes to the potential for human interaction to interpose with a wider geology of the earth. Richard Nott works with environmentally precarious, industrial materials, like polystyrene, resins and bitumen alongside emulsions and varnishes, building them up layer upon layer, into a textural palimpsest, before scraping or burning them back to fuse and reveal what lies beneath the superficial shell. Viewing Nott’s artwork is witnessing a protracted collision of creative and destructive processes where an evolution of unsentimental matter is exposed, concealed, exposed, concealed, continuously. This fusion contemplates a cycle of existence which becomes imbued in the work, but a cycle where toxicity becomes ingrained in the geology and part of its future organic finger print. His objective is to create a natural object that evolves like a living thing with truth and imperfection reflecting how impact fuses with outcome. Nott’s core motivation is to reflect, not in a beginning and end but a journey where genesis leads to dissolution, and on once again to genesis - something eternal akin to alchemy.

Nott is a British artist, who currently lives and works in west Cornwall. He gained his Fine Art degree at LancashirePolytechnic and his MA in fine art at Reading University. In 1985 he worked as an assistant to Andy Goldsworthy on site-specific sculptures in the Lake District. He was gallery assistant at the Royal Academy from 1986-7 and at Oldham ArtGallery from 1991-2. He won the South West Arts Visual Arts and Photography Award in 1994. He gained a residency atthe 12th International Weeks of Painting in Slovenia. Exhibitions have been extensive and international notable includednumerous solo exhibitions at Anima Mundi over a long and fruitful working relationship, ‘Art Now Cornwall’ at the Tate St Ives and Chashama, Avenue of the America’s, NYC.



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