Nan Collantine

Nan Collantine | Contemporary British Artist

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Blue bath cold heart
acrylic and oil on canvas
50x50cm
Blue bath cold heart
acrylic and oil on canvas
50x50cm
Big hearts sing back
oil and acrylic on canvas
50x50cm
SOLD
Big hearts sing back
oil and acrylic on canvas
50x50cm
SOLD
Midsummer on Medlock
oil and acrylic on canvas
50x50cm
Midsummer on Medlock
oil and acrylic on canvas
50x50cm
She was empty yet deep at the same time
oil and acrylic on canvas
50x50cm 
SOLD
She was empty yet deep at the same time
oil and acrylic on canvas
50x50cm
SOLD

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Gala part 1 2020

GALA paintings part one 2020

The first four of a series of eight paintings that respond to Victoria Baths, a disused Edwardian swimming pool in Manchester.

Opened in 1906, Manchester’s water palace was designed by architect Henry Price for Manchester City Council and no expense was spared to create one of the most impressive Edwardian swimming pools.  At the time the baths served an important purpose in combating the spread of infectious disease in the city’s cramped housing, in which many people died due to poor unsanitary conditions.  So people came here to bathe, to swim and experience the Turkish Baths and as they arrived were divided into hierarchies, First Class Males, Second Class Males and Women and children, according to their ability to pay.

It was interesting to be painting this subject and this space at this time, as measures to control the spread of Coronovirus were being implemented, leading to the eventual lockdown.  Offering an interesting point of reflection, a parallel in time, considering the original purpose of the building and the importance of water and washing.   It also meant I couldn’t visit the baths and instead I worked from the sketches I made in my last residency, as well as from memory; I also had sketchbooks in which members of the public had drawn their impressions of the baths, which offered a removal from the subject and a way into abstraction.

 

 

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