Will Teather
British artist Will Teather graduated from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in 2003, and currently lives and works in Norfolk. He has exhibited regularly in London with the art collective Project 142, and his work was featured at the Marquee Club in Leicester Square.
In spring 2007 Will Teather was selected from worldwide applications to spearhead the new artist-in-residence programme at Aberdeen Arts Centre. The artist's two month residency in Scotland was a high-profile public event which met with substantial interest and acclaim at a local and national level.
Will Teather's personal compositions continue to reveal a clear fascination with the expressive qualities of the human figure, emphasised by a careful balance of light and patterns. Recently he has been developing a series of 'neo-gothic surrealist' images, with a strong sense of narrative existing between the different compositions.
The narrative concepts for the current series were nurtured whilst in Aberdeen through visits to The Elphinstone Institute, meeting local author Stanley Robertson and being shown around HM Theatre's archives by Edi Swan, in addition to watching the Arts Centre's own dance and theatre programme.
The artist's interest in storytelling and performance also draws upon his experience as a singer-songwriter, and as a record sleeve designer for 10th Planet Digital Media. Under the pseudonym 'Birthday Letters,' Slow Glass Records will be releasing his debut album this winter.
Will Teather paintings featured in the Modern Artists Gallery are from his current series of work 'Sephaville'