PATRIC OLD

City University London 1991
School of the Art Institute Chicago | Royal College of Art London 1993

This British born artist/designer has quietly had a studio in Estonia for 5 years. He has used it primarily to make large figurative drawings, taking advantage of an attractive, young and vital people found in this special part of the world.

The exhibition will be given over exclusively to presenting a selection of these drawings, made primarily in charcoal, unframed and unplugged. Drawing he believes, “is key to developing the ability to visually communicate in any form; a work always in progress”. Art, in its simplest form.

PATRIC OLD’S career has spanned being Art Director for Cosmopolitan, working with some of the world’s top fashion photographers and illustrators, to last year showing his highly praised large controversial canvasses at the “Guy’s and Doll’s” groundbreaking exhibit at Brighton Museum, as part of the Brighton Arts Festival. This significant show brought together under one roof, artists such as Surrealists Hans Bellmer and Man Ray, and Paula Rego, all who work with the ‘doll’ or ‘mannequin’ as a vehicle for social comment or metaphor.

Not surprisingly, PATRIC OLD as a designer had contributed to the sculpting of the Fashion Model Barbie Collectible series for Mattel stemming from his development of a 3D computer-generated fashion mannequin at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1993.

As a painter, he would then go on to recycle these sculptural objects back as subject matter, breathing new life into them as paintings, to reveal the ‘dolls’ provocative power.