Dreams After Lunch: Billy Bagilhole & Katja Farin

Billy Bagilhole is an award-winning artist from North Wales. He has exhibited works internationally in the Saatchi gallery, the Chengdu biennale, Art Taipei, Bonham’s, Delphian gallery, the Welsh assembly, Rhodes contemporary, Blue shop gallery and many more accredited galleries. His work has also been acquired and added to the collections of reputable establishments such as Soho House, Creative Debuts, and the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

Bagilhole grew up in a household full of his father’s paintings and prints, from a young age drawing Native Americans, animals, and religious figures, imitating the images his father created. They continue to be a fascination as his father passed away when he was 6 in the year of 2001. His experience is a time capsule of creativity for ongoing works. He often states that the reason he persisted in art was because of his father, and this is why his empathy for mark-making, for creating, is so strong.

Bagilhole predominantly works through the mediums of painting and filmmaking. Often covering canvases with salt and thick paint, he enjoys the technicality within painting, within colour and within the eye of the lens. Bagilhole frequently works through internal gestures and hints of nostalgic representations on abstracted life. Often colliding colour with imagery of sinisterness. He feels that painting becomes an expressionistic form of understanding and that by leaving the work as an open question, an unknown metaphor, meaning within painting or filmmaking, within art becomes infinite.