Terry Molloy

I am a visual artist who has spent much of my working life in a variety of art-related professions. Over the past decade I have concentrated more on developing my personal art practice, mainly through the mediums of photography, drawing and painting. I was born and grew up in Liverpool, moved for a short while to Manchester and since then have lived in different areas of Greater London. This background has left me with a fondness for the visual stimuli of the sights and colours of the metropolitan and urban environment and has inspired much of my work. However, like many city and urban dwellers, I also feel the need to venture out into the openness of more rural settings and some of my work reflects the differences and tensions between these two environments.

Many of the photo-based images here are part of a collection based upon consideration of different aspects of colour in urban environments. Colour in this setting often seems to be found at opposite ends of the chromatic spectrum; either greys and subtle muted colours or an over-abundance of bright, clashing and sometimes garish colours. The images are an attempt to isolate potentially interesting combinations of form and colour and take them a stage further than the original capture, in a way not dissimilar to the process of collage or painting. In fact, I don't really see myself as a photographer in the fullest sense of the term: I see myself more as a collector of fleeting moments to be stored away, digitally-manipulated and rearranged into a final image. Subsequently, recent exploration of some colours and forms in these images has also led me to develop a series of painted works of a more abstract nature.

Some of the drawn and painted images feature figures either standing alone or situated in various imaginary places. They perhaps evoke thoughts about who we are, the way we appear both to ourselves and others and what we feel about the places we live, have lived and spent our dreams and waking hours.

Terry Molloy

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