Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007

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"Paintings by Roland Hicks have a cinematic quality whereby everyday objects are given an unlikely sense of beauty.

The subjects of his works are often discarded or unnoticed objects from everyday life: unravelled cassette tapes, bubbles on the top of a washing up bottle, hair on a hairbrush. More recently, however, he has begun to study the way in which discarded items can take on a new life, when taken out of their original context, and his latest paintings concentrate on the phantasmagorical nature of chewing gum as it stretches up between the pavement and the bottom of a shoe.

Working from photographs, Hicks begins with a close-up photograph of a singular object and transfers it onto canvas to create a seemingly photo-realistic copy of the original. His work has a deceptive clarity however, and although faithfully translated from the photograph, the objects are displaced from their original settings, leaving them marooned within their own unidentified space."

- Oriel Davies, 2007

Oriel Davies Website

Exerpt from New Exibition at the Oriel Davies Gallery, Newport by Richard Noyce

Roland Hicks on Art Rabbit

List of Artworks

	SOMETHING TO SOMEONE SOMEWHERE Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006/7, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm	view
	GET MYSELF INTO IT Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006/7, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm	view
	YOU HAVE A WAY OF GOING ON Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006/7, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm	view
	KEEP IT TOGETHER Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006/7, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm	view
	WE KNOW THE THINGS YOU DO Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006/7, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm	view
	SOMETIMES WE SENSE THE DOUBT TOGETHER John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, 2008 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery , 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006/7, oil on canvas, 153cm x 122cm	view
	I TOLD YOU NOT TO MEET ME HERE Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006, oil on canvas, 102cm x 102cm	view
	IF NOT NOW WHENEVER Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm	view
	GIVE ME EVERY LITTLE THING Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm	view
	HOW I LONG TO FEEL THAT SUMMER IN MY HEART Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2006, oil on canvas, 102cm x 102cm	view
	BEEN LONGING TOO LONG Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 Private Collection 2006, oil on canvas, 60cm x 76cm	view
	I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE Blow Up, St Paul's Gallery, Birmingham, 2004 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 Private Collection 2004, oil on canvas, 102cm x 102cm	view
	SOMETIMES IT HURTS Blow Up, St Paul's Gallery, Birmingham, 2004 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 Private Collection 2004, oil on canvas, 102cm x 102cm	view
	WE'VE COME FOR YOUR YOUNG Weeds, Hiscox Artprojects, 2005 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007 Private Collection 2004, oil on canvas, 102cm x 102cm	view
	NOTHING CAN STOP US NOW Nothing can stop us now, Hiscox Art Projects, 2003 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007 Private Collection 2003, oil on canvas, 102cm x 102cm	view
	THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WE CAN DO Nothing can stop us now, Hiscox Art Projects, 2003 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 Private Collection 2003, oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm	view
	SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE GIVING IN Nothing can stop us now, Hiscox Art Projects, 2003 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 Private Collection 2003, oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm	view
	WHAT IS THIS PLACE? Nothing can stop us now, Hiscox Art Projects, 2003 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 Private Collection 2003, oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm	view
	TONIGHT I'M YOURS Nothing can stop us now, Hiscox Art Projects, 2003 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007 Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007 2003, oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm	view
	WHAT ARE DAYS FOR? Natwest Art Prize, 1999 Viva Chihuahua!, The Tannery, 1998 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007 Saatchi Gallery Collection 1998, oil on canvas, 92cm x 92cm	view
	THE NOISE OF CARPET Viva Chihuahua!, The Tannery, 1998 Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007 Private Collection 1998, oil on canvas, 92cm x 92cm	view