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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

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

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List of Artworks

click to view... 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
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Click to view larger image... 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
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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
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Click to 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
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click to 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
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Click to 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
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click to 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
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IF NOT NOW WHENEVER
Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2007
Give Me Every Little Thing, Ffotogallery, 2007

2006, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm

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click to 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
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click to 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
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click to 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
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Click to 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
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click to 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
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click to 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
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click to 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
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click to 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
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click to 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
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click to 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
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click to 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
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click to 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
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click to view... THE NOISE OF CARPET
Viva Chihuahua!, The Tannery, 1998
Roland Hicks, Oriel Davies, 2007
Private Collection

1998, oil on canvas, 92cm x 92cm
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