Go Big or Go Home" by Claire Dorsett"

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George and Jørgen are please to present an exhibition of new works by Claire Dorsett: ‘Go Big or Go Home'. Dorsett makes big paintings. She takes notes, writes down jokes, one-liners, thoughts, records memories, and scales them up into mammoth, heroic paintings. They often have a self-mocking or dark wit. Claire Dorsett's ‘big simple bold things' are huge paintings that have a dominant presence but an approachable manner. The brush-work, colour, scale, and uncomplicated form, combine to create bold, eye-grabbing giants which also have about them a self-conscious smallness. Dorsett graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Art in 2010. Since, she has been selected for various group exhibitions in London, and most recently shortlisted for this year's Threadneedle Prize. At the Slade, Claire won the Andor Scholarship, The Nicholas Volley Bursary, and the Peter and Betty McLean Memorial Prize. This year she has been awarded the Harry Walker Young Artist Prize by Bath Society of Artists. Dorsett's fondness of painting billboard scale can make it difficult for the majority of her work to be seen in one place. Using the vast warehouse space at Camden Town Unlimited, George and Jorgen invite you to view the paintings en mass.