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About Me

Artist, painter. Using this as an improptu website to look at work... it's become more of a rambling sketchbook... Formal investigation, responding to things and unscrambling ideas and influences...Francis Bacon- “A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is the struggle with the object.”..

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

... artists' work I like: Eilif Amundson. Milton Avery. Ed Rushca. Alex Katz. Paul Nash. Fairfield Porter. Chardin. Martin Parr. Karin Mamma Anderson. Albert Pinkham Ryder. Munch. Matthias Weischer. Watteau. Howard Hodgkin. Michael Andrews. Constable. David Hockney. Matthew Smith. William Raban. Velasquez. Larry Poons. Odilon Redon's pastel drawings. Dexter Dalwood. William Scott. Malcolm Morley. Al Held. Degas. Edward Corbett. Charles Burchfield. Matisse. Richard Walker. Paul Wonner. Monet. Jock Macfadyen. Corot. Paul Housley...

My Blog

CV

Born, 1976. Currently live and work in GlasgowQualifications: 19962000 BA(HONS) Fine Art, Painting, The Glasgow School of Art 19951996 Foundation ( Distinction ) The Leith School of ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:33:00 GMT

essay by Richard Byford for Freedom no. 5 october 2007 solo exhibition @ The Glasgow Art Club

F R E E D O M no. 5Toby Messenger hopes the British Government never find a way to tax his vast wealth. He will do anything to stay a rich man amassing fortune through ambush tactics... a kind of larc...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:53:00 GMT

essay from exhibition at Babel, Trondheim, Norway (Dec 2007). more info/ images - babel.teks.no

Intimate MeditationsAs we will see in Babel the week before Christmas, Ehryn Torrell and Toby Messenger are two artists who investigate architecture and the relationship to our surroundings in two dif...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:54:00 GMT

essay by Jack Motram for ’in- between. exhibition @ Intermedia, 2005 with Jackie Anderson

Jackie Anderson paints people in places, Toby Messenger paints the places in people.Anderson's portraits dispense with the relationship between artist and sitter, catching her subjects unawares, prese...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:50:00 GMT