Glenn’s creative art is concerned mainly in trying to re-define the familiar.  He takes an everyday object and works out a way of making it surprising so that you have to look at it several times and ask yourself questions about its identity.  He attempts to strip subjects of their accepted meaning so they appear to belong to a kind of alternative reality.  For Glenn theatre props and objects placed in a theatrical setting also radiate a similar atmosphere, which he strives to inject into his work.

Glenn also finds the medium of plaster a fascinating and versatile material.  With the addition of colour, he can achieve startling, abstract results.  It can also be sculpted, cast, and made to appear like cracked rock.  The bowls are a practical solution to displaying the beauty of the material’s decorative qualities.

Presently Glenn is working on a series of paintings depicting insects, animals or other visual ‘events’ discovered in unexpected settings.

 

GLENN GORING
1967	Began training as picture restorer.
1970	Designed and painted inner gatefold for Comus’s album “First Utterance”.
1973-1976	Gained a BA in Fine Art at Ravensbourne College of Art.
1981	Began career as a freelance picture restorer, copyist and portrait painter.
1983	Designed and made ceramic relief tiles.
1989-1990	Became member of the International Institute of Conservators. Nominated as official copyist for the National Portrait Gallery.
1990	Began experimenting with coloured plaster as a painting medium.
1995	Began using coloured plaster as material for decorative bowls and furniture.
1995	Worked on a series of 3D objects/sculptures using domestic appliances.
2007	Commenced series of paintings depicting insects and the unexpected.

 

EXHIBITIONS
1988	Exhibition of surrealist sculptures with D.Truzzi-Franconi at the Tilt Factory Framlingham, Suffolk
1992	Exhibition of sculptures and plaster paintings at the Altamira Gallery, Banbury.
1995	Exhibition of paintings at Swan House Gallery, Beccles.
2006	Exhibition at the Norwich Arts Fringe Festival’s City Trail.
2008	Exhibitions of paintings and objects at: Regatta Fine Art, Burnham Market, Norfolk & 6 Artists at the United Reformed Church, Norwich

 

OTHER ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
1969-1972	Played guitar and composed songs with the band Comus. Recorded the album ‘First Utterance”.
1982-1984	Wrote, produced and designed 2 stage plays performed by Norwich Experimental Theatre in Norwich.
1985-1986	Designed and built 2 shop interiors in London and Norwich.
1986-1987	Completed an MA in Creative writing, University of East Anglia.
1990-2005	Wrote short stories and a screenplay, as well as a 30 minute television drama produced by East Anglia TV.
2008	Performed with the reformed Comus for the first time in 37 years at the Stockholm-Helsinki Melloboat Music Festival.