Against Landscape – group
exhibition of experimental work exploring the idea of landscape in painting
exhibition of experimental work exploring the idea of landscape in painting
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| Curator Daniel Stugis with his painting About to Fall |
Against Landscape the summer 2017 exhibition at The Glasgow School of
Art opened in the Reid Gallery today, 1 July 2017. The exhibition takes the form of a group show of experimental work exploring the idea
of landscape in painting. Curated by curated by
painter Daniel Sturgis in collaboration with Grizedale Arts, the show runs runs until 23 August.
Art opened in the Reid Gallery today, 1 July 2017. The exhibition takes the form of a group show of experimental work exploring the idea
of landscape in painting. Curated by curated by
painter Daniel Sturgis in collaboration with Grizedale Arts, the show runs runs until 23 August.
The exhibition has taken its initial inspiration from
the English Lake District, the history of the Coniston Institute and some of
the contested traditions which are at its heart, such as the opposing but
connected positions of Wordsworth and Ruskin (and the romantic against the
useful). The exhibition also highlights the way much modernist painting, while
trying to escape the influence of landscape painting, had a heightened
awareness of the rural embedded within it.
the English Lake District, the history of the Coniston Institute and some of
the contested traditions which are at its heart, such as the opposing but
connected positions of Wordsworth and Ruskin (and the romantic against the
useful). The exhibition also highlights the way much modernist painting, while
trying to escape the influence of landscape painting, had a heightened
awareness of the rural embedded within it.
Against Landscape showcases new work by
Lisa Milroy, Paul Morrison, Pamela Fraser and Daniel Sturgis situated amongst a
tightly curated selection of existing artworks from artists including Sean
Scully, Patrick Caulfield and Eva Rothschild.
Lisa Milroy, Paul Morrison, Pamela Fraser and Daniel Sturgis situated amongst a
tightly curated selection of existing artworks from artists including Sean
Scully, Patrick Caulfield and Eva Rothschild.
“The diverse collection of
artworks on show in the exhibition presents how artists have referred to
the natural world, and the canon of landscape painting, while trying to build a
language apart from it,” says curator Daniel Sturgis. “The exhibition uses the artworks to
consider how the ideas, genius or place of landscape painting have been
manifested, but not overtly displayed, in a variety of practices.”
artworks on show in the exhibition presents how artists have referred to
the natural world, and the canon of landscape painting, while trying to build a
language apart from it,” says curator Daniel Sturgis. “The exhibition uses the artworks to
consider how the ideas, genius or place of landscape painting have been
manifested, but not overtly displayed, in a variety of practices.”
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| Lisa Milroy’s Blue shown on the specially created display system |
Lisa
Milroy’s landscapes
can be merely suggested as in Blue, 2017 where jars of blue water are painted
spread out over a flat field-like surface or artificial like the intense
landscape projection in Constant Daylight, 2005. Each propose how
landscape can be removed from nature and captured in art – a conundrum that has
challenged landscape painters for centuries.
Milroy’s landscapes
can be merely suggested as in Blue, 2017 where jars of blue water are painted
spread out over a flat field-like surface or artificial like the intense
landscape projection in Constant Daylight, 2005. Each propose how
landscape can be removed from nature and captured in art – a conundrum that has
challenged landscape painters for centuries.
Full list of featured artists: Patrick
Caulfield, Michael Craig-Martin, Leo Fitzmaurice, Sam Francis, Pamela Fraser,
Lucy Gunning, Gary Hume, Jasleen Kaur, Ian McKeever, Lisa Milroy, Paul
Morrison, Eva Rothschild, Sean Scully, Daniel Sturgis and Roy Voss.
Caulfield, Michael Craig-Martin, Leo Fitzmaurice, Sam Francis, Pamela Fraser,
Lucy Gunning, Gary Hume, Jasleen Kaur, Ian McKeever, Lisa Milroy, Paul
Morrison, Eva Rothschild, Sean Scully, Daniel Sturgis and Roy Voss.
A number of the paintings are displayed on
eccentric hanging panels created by Grizedale Arts using wooden off-cuts to reinterpret an early twentieth century modernist painting
display system.
eccentric hanging panels created by Grizedale Arts using wooden off-cuts to reinterpret an early twentieth century modernist painting
display system.
The Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RF is open seven days a week 10am – 4.30pm
Access is free.
Access is free.
For further information, images and interviews:
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Booth
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press@gsa.ac.uk
@GSofAMedia
Notes for Editors
· Daniel
Sturgis (born
1966) is a painter. He studied at Camberwell College of
Arts and Goldsmiths College (1986-1994) who has exhibited widely in Europe and
the United States since 1997. He is currently Reader in Painting at the
University of the Arts London. He was a prize winner in the John Moores
Painting Prize in 2010; in 2012 curated a major international exhibition for
Tate ‘The indiscipline of Painting” and had a one person exhibition at Sleeper
Gallery in Edinburgh in 2017.
Sturgis (born
1966) is a painter. He studied at Camberwell College of
Arts and Goldsmiths College (1986-1994) who has exhibited widely in Europe and
the United States since 1997. He is currently Reader in Painting at the
University of the Arts London. He was a prize winner in the John Moores
Painting Prize in 2010; in 2012 curated a major international exhibition for
Tate ‘The indiscipline of Painting” and had a one person exhibition at Sleeper
Gallery in Edinburgh in 2017.
Grizedale
Arts is
an arts organisation based on the historic site of Lawson Park farm, above the
Coniston valley in the Lake District. Its programme actively engages with the
complexities of the rural environment. Rather than focusing on creating a
finished art product we concentrate on the process, and the dissemination of
ideas to a wider audience. In doing so, we typically work alongside the local
community of a project to develop and realise work with artists – consequently
the projects often challenge the artists as much as the local (participatory)
audience. The activities are often fed into a major annual project or event
that allows public access to the Grizedale’s process; as something that
introduces artists’ thinking into everyday life, situating active contemporary
arts alongside the culture of the rural environment. Grizedale Arts has become
a model for a new kind of art institution, one that works beyond the
established structures of the classic contemporary art model and aims to rework
the perceived notion of culture set against a backdrop of emerging issues. From
its unique site the organisation positions itself as a national centre for the
development of the arts, working with its local context to address global
cultural change.
Arts is
an arts organisation based on the historic site of Lawson Park farm, above the
Coniston valley in the Lake District. Its programme actively engages with the
complexities of the rural environment. Rather than focusing on creating a
finished art product we concentrate on the process, and the dissemination of
ideas to a wider audience. In doing so, we typically work alongside the local
community of a project to develop and realise work with artists – consequently
the projects often challenge the artists as much as the local (participatory)
audience. The activities are often fed into a major annual project or event
that allows public access to the Grizedale’s process; as something that
introduces artists’ thinking into everyday life, situating active contemporary
arts alongside the culture of the rural environment. Grizedale Arts has become
a model for a new kind of art institution, one that works beyond the
established structures of the classic contemporary art model and aims to rework
the perceived notion of culture set against a backdrop of emerging issues. From
its unique site the organisation positions itself as a national centre for the
development of the arts, working with its local context to address global
cultural change.
Pamela
Fraser is
interested in the simplicity of both the artistic act and the evocative nature
of its associations. The photographic representation of her painted
interventions in the landscape of her native Vermont are playful, fragile and
transient. They bring together a deep respect for the environment with a
light-hearted interpretation of the humility and truths within painting itself.
Pamela Fraser (born 1965) Lives and
works in Barnard, Vermont. She studied at School of Visual Arts New York and
the University of California, Los Angeles (1992) and has exhibited widely in
Europe and the United States. She is Professor of Painting at the University of
Vermont. Her book ‘How Color
Works: Color Theory in the 21st Century’ will be published by
Oxford University Press in 2017.
Fraser is
interested in the simplicity of both the artistic act and the evocative nature
of its associations. The photographic representation of her painted
interventions in the landscape of her native Vermont are playful, fragile and
transient. They bring together a deep respect for the environment with a
light-hearted interpretation of the humility and truths within painting itself.
Pamela Fraser (born 1965) Lives and
works in Barnard, Vermont. She studied at School of Visual Arts New York and
the University of California, Los Angeles (1992) and has exhibited widely in
Europe and the United States. She is Professor of Painting at the University of
Vermont. Her book ‘How Color
Works: Color Theory in the 21st Century’ will be published by
Oxford University Press in 2017.
Paul
Morrison
creates striking monochrome compositions; amalgams of appropriated imagery from
historic landscape woodcuts, cartoons and graphic illustration. For all the
works indebtedness to the scientific world of botanical specimens, Morrison
perhaps suggests an interest in the artificiality of images, and the
artificiality of landscape itself, as opposed to any definition of truth to
nature. Paul Morrison (born 1966)
Lives and Works in Sheffield. He studied at Hugh Baird College Merseyside and
Goldsmiths College (1998). He has exhibited internationally since 1997. He was
a prize winner in the Jerwood Painting and John Moores Painting Prize in 2002.
In 2017, he held a one-person exhibition Sadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany.
Morrison
creates striking monochrome compositions; amalgams of appropriated imagery from
historic landscape woodcuts, cartoons and graphic illustration. For all the
works indebtedness to the scientific world of botanical specimens, Morrison
perhaps suggests an interest in the artificiality of images, and the
artificiality of landscape itself, as opposed to any definition of truth to
nature. Paul Morrison (born 1966)
Lives and Works in Sheffield. He studied at Hugh Baird College Merseyside and
Goldsmiths College (1998). He has exhibited internationally since 1997. He was
a prize winner in the Jerwood Painting and John Moores Painting Prize in 2002.
In 2017, he held a one-person exhibition Sadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany.
Lisa Milroy’s can perhaps be best
understood as an artist involved in still-life composition but the boundaries
between all genres are constructed and never fully certain. A landscape is
merely suggested in her large painting Blue,
2017 where jars of blue water are painted spread out over a flat field-like
surface. It is a painting that proposes how landscape can be removed from
nature and captured in art or the imagination. Lisa Milroy (born 1959) Lives and Works in
London. She studied at St Martin’s School of Art and Goldsmiths College (1982)
and has exhibited internationally since
1984. She won first prize at the John Moores Painting Prize in 1988, was
elected a Royal Academician in 2005
and is currently Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and is an Artist Trustee of Tate. Her forthcoming exhibition at
Parasol unit, London will open in January 2018.
understood as an artist involved in still-life composition but the boundaries
between all genres are constructed and never fully certain. A landscape is
merely suggested in her large painting Blue,
2017 where jars of blue water are painted spread out over a flat field-like
surface. It is a painting that proposes how landscape can be removed from
nature and captured in art or the imagination. Lisa Milroy (born 1959) Lives and Works in
London. She studied at St Martin’s School of Art and Goldsmiths College (1982)
and has exhibited internationally since
1984. She won first prize at the John Moores Painting Prize in 1988, was
elected a Royal Academician in 2005
and is currently Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and is an Artist Trustee of Tate. Her forthcoming exhibition at
Parasol unit, London will open in January 2018.
Daniel
Sturgis’s hard-edged
compositions are reminiscent of representations of rock or boulders yet more
readily allude to the languages and history of modernist abstraction and
contemporary design. The paintings seem to recognise that historically abstract
painting can be seen as both indebted but trying to escape from a landscape
tradition. Daniel Sturgis (born 1966) Lives and works in London. He studied
at Camberwell College of Arts and Goldsmiths College (1994) and has exhibited
widely in Europe and the United States since 1997. He is Reader in Painting at
the University of the Arts London. He was a prize winner in the John Moores
Painting Prize in 2010. In 2012, he curated a major international exhibition
for Tate “The indiscipline of Painting”. He held a one-person exhibition at
Sleeper Gallery in Edinburgh in 2017.
Sturgis’s hard-edged
compositions are reminiscent of representations of rock or boulders yet more
readily allude to the languages and history of modernist abstraction and
contemporary design. The paintings seem to recognise that historically abstract
painting can be seen as both indebted but trying to escape from a landscape
tradition. Daniel Sturgis (born 1966) Lives and works in London. He studied
at Camberwell College of Arts and Goldsmiths College (1994) and has exhibited
widely in Europe and the United States since 1997. He is Reader in Painting at
the University of the Arts London. He was a prize winner in the John Moores
Painting Prize in 2010. In 2012, he curated a major international exhibition
for Tate “The indiscipline of Painting”. He held a one-person exhibition at
Sleeper Gallery in Edinburgh in 2017.
Patrick
Caulfield is
regarded as one of Britain’s leading 20th century painters. He is known for his bold crisp graphic
representational paintings that often incorporate elements of high detail or
photorealism within them. Caulfield who could be described as a resolutely
urban artist was interested European as opposed to American art and how
picturing is mediated through the synthetic world of design. Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) studied
at Chelsea School of Art (1956) and the Royal College of Art (1960) were he was
a year behind the Hockney and Kitaj. In 2000 there was a major retrospective
of his work at the Yale Centre for British Art and in 2013 one at Tate Britain.
Caulfield is
regarded as one of Britain’s leading 20th century painters. He is known for his bold crisp graphic
representational paintings that often incorporate elements of high detail or
photorealism within them. Caulfield who could be described as a resolutely
urban artist was interested European as opposed to American art and how
picturing is mediated through the synthetic world of design. Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) studied
at Chelsea School of Art (1956) and the Royal College of Art (1960) were he was
a year behind the Hockney and Kitaj. In 2000 there was a major retrospective
of his work at the Yale Centre for British Art and in 2013 one at Tate Britain.
Michael
Craig-Martin studied at Yale University in the United States and returned to the
United Kingdom in the mid-1960s and
became a key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists.
Although his work has encompassed may forms over his career a recurring
interest can be seen as the tensions between objects, representations, and
language. His early works often made
reference to American Minimalism and with Film
his returned to his native Ireland is framed through that lens. Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941) Live and works in London, held his
first solo exhibition at the Rowan Gallery in 1969 and participated in the definitive exhibition of British
conceptual art, The New Art at the Hayward Gallery in 1972. In 2006 there was a retrospective exhibition at the Irish
Museum of Modern Art.
Craig-Martin studied at Yale University in the United States and returned to the
United Kingdom in the mid-1960s and
became a key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists.
Although his work has encompassed may forms over his career a recurring
interest can be seen as the tensions between objects, representations, and
language. His early works often made
reference to American Minimalism and with Film
his returned to his native Ireland is framed through that lens. Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941) Live and works in London, held his
first solo exhibition at the Rowan Gallery in 1969 and participated in the definitive exhibition of British
conceptual art, The New Art at the Hayward Gallery in 1972. In 2006 there was a retrospective exhibition at the Irish
Museum of Modern Art.
Sam Francis is regarded as a leading
American Abstract Expressionist painter. He spent time in the 1950s in Paris,
where he admired Monet’s Waterlily paintings and became close to the Matisse
family. His travels in both Europe and Asia are seen as important influences on
his lyrical and calligraphic paintings and printmaking. Francis was interested
in the performative aspect of painting and in 1966 over Tokyo Bay he created a remarkable series
of Sky Paintings with aircraft trailing coloured smoke and the following year
in Naibara in Japan a snow painting performance. Sam Francis (born 1923 – died 1994).
In 1999 there was a major retrospective of his work “Sam
Francis: Paintings 1947-1990,” organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles which through 2001 to: the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Konsthall
Malmö, Malmö, Sweden; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid,
Spain; Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy.
American Abstract Expressionist painter. He spent time in the 1950s in Paris,
where he admired Monet’s Waterlily paintings and became close to the Matisse
family. His travels in both Europe and Asia are seen as important influences on
his lyrical and calligraphic paintings and printmaking. Francis was interested
in the performative aspect of painting and in 1966 over Tokyo Bay he created a remarkable series
of Sky Paintings with aircraft trailing coloured smoke and the following year
in Naibara in Japan a snow painting performance. Sam Francis (born 1923 – died 1994).
In 1999 there was a major retrospective of his work “Sam
Francis: Paintings 1947-1990,” organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles which through 2001 to: the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Konsthall
Malmö, Malmö, Sweden; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid,
Spain; Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy.
The simple geometry of an institutional,
hospital door provided the inspiration for Gary
Hume’s paintings of the early 1990s. As the decade progressed, Hume
extended his repertoire to include a variety of simplified abstractions, based
similarly to the ‘Doors’, in that these ‘abstractions’ clearly acknowledged a certain
degree of representation. Executed in high-sheen, household gloss paint, these
works belie their clarity, with the repetitive accumulation of layers forming
thickly impastoed ‘outlines’ between areas of colour. This peculiar physicality
is even more surprising, given the graphic qualities of Hume’s work in
reproduction—and accentuates the ‘objecthood’ of the painted surface. Gary Hume (born 1962) was born in Kent
and lives and works in London and upstate New York, USA. He studied at
Goldsmiths College, London. Early solo shows include Venice Biennale (1999)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1999), the National Galleries of Scotland,
Edinburgh (1999) and in 2013 there was a retrospective at Tate Britain.
hospital door provided the inspiration for Gary
Hume’s paintings of the early 1990s. As the decade progressed, Hume
extended his repertoire to include a variety of simplified abstractions, based
similarly to the ‘Doors’, in that these ‘abstractions’ clearly acknowledged a certain
degree of representation. Executed in high-sheen, household gloss paint, these
works belie their clarity, with the repetitive accumulation of layers forming
thickly impastoed ‘outlines’ between areas of colour. This peculiar physicality
is even more surprising, given the graphic qualities of Hume’s work in
reproduction—and accentuates the ‘objecthood’ of the painted surface. Gary Hume (born 1962) was born in Kent
and lives and works in London and upstate New York, USA. He studied at
Goldsmiths College, London. Early solo shows include Venice Biennale (1999)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1999), the National Galleries of Scotland,
Edinburgh (1999) and in 2013 there was a retrospective at Tate Britain.
Leo
Fitzmaurice
brings a playful critique to his interest in the everyday and familiar. Whether
reconfiguring parts of automobiles, or the detritus and apparatus of a
gallery’s refurbishment his installations and sculptures each seem to delight
in confronting and confounding viewers expectations. In 2011 he won the
Northern Art Prize with a work that wittily re-arranged a Museum’s collection
of 19th Century sea-scape paintings. Leo Fitzmaurice (born 1963) lives and works in Liverpool. He
studied at Liverpool Art School (1986-9) and Manchester (1990-2) Metropolitan
University. In 2015, he was commissioned by frieze to create work for its
Sculpture Park and he has held solo exhibition at the Sunday Painter in London
in 2014 and 2016.
Fitzmaurice
brings a playful critique to his interest in the everyday and familiar. Whether
reconfiguring parts of automobiles, or the detritus and apparatus of a
gallery’s refurbishment his installations and sculptures each seem to delight
in confronting and confounding viewers expectations. In 2011 he won the
Northern Art Prize with a work that wittily re-arranged a Museum’s collection
of 19th Century sea-scape paintings. Leo Fitzmaurice (born 1963) lives and works in Liverpool. He
studied at Liverpool Art School (1986-9) and Manchester (1990-2) Metropolitan
University. In 2015, he was commissioned by frieze to create work for its
Sculpture Park and he has held solo exhibition at the Sunday Painter in London
in 2014 and 2016.
Eva Rothschild
is one of the leading sculptors of her generation. Her sculptures and
installations reflect the intertwining of ideas around spirituality and power
and a very physical understanding of how we relate to specific materials and
scale. Eva Rothschild (born 1971) lives and
works in London. She studied at the University of Ulster
(1993) and Goldsmiths College (1999). She held a solo exhibition at the New
Gallery in Wallsall in 2016, exhibited was Duveen Gallery commission at Tate
Britain in 2009 and in 2011 was commissioned to create a major public artwork
Empire for Manhattan in New York.
is one of the leading sculptors of her generation. Her sculptures and
installations reflect the intertwining of ideas around spirituality and power
and a very physical understanding of how we relate to specific materials and
scale. Eva Rothschild (born 1971) lives and
works in London. She studied at the University of Ulster
(1993) and Goldsmiths College (1999). She held a solo exhibition at the New
Gallery in Wallsall in 2016, exhibited was Duveen Gallery commission at Tate
Britain in 2009 and in 2011 was commissioned to create a major public artwork
Empire for Manhattan in New York.
Lucy Gunning
is an artist whose work
crosses many
media stemming from an interest in the expanded field of sculpture. She
received early recognition for her video
works but has more recently turned to archival investigations, photography, and site-specific
performance. Her works embraces ideas of site-specificity and how individuals
negotiate spaces and construct them. Lucy
Gunning (born 1964) lives and works in London. She studied at Falmouth
(1987) and Goldsmiths College (1994). Recent projects include ‘Books in Common
and Olympia: works from the Kenneth Armitage Foundation Fellowship, 2011 – 2013’
and the film ‘Imagine Sandnes’ which was
commissioned for the ‘Vitamin Festival’ in, Norway, in 2010.
is an artist whose work
crosses many
media stemming from an interest in the expanded field of sculpture. She
received early recognition for her video
works but has more recently turned to archival investigations, photography, and site-specific
performance. Her works embraces ideas of site-specificity and how individuals
negotiate spaces and construct them. Lucy
Gunning (born 1964) lives and works in London. She studied at Falmouth
(1987) and Goldsmiths College (1994). Recent projects include ‘Books in Common
and Olympia: works from the Kenneth Armitage Foundation Fellowship, 2011 – 2013’
and the film ‘Imagine Sandnes’ which was
commissioned for the ‘Vitamin Festival’ in, Norway, in 2010.
Jasleen Kaur is interested in what she
calls ‘the malleability of cultures’ and how material objects hold social as
well as formal readings. Working sculpturally and with installation and
self-portraiture her work embraces ideas of cultural and material hybridity.
Her Cairns can be seen to draws on
her Scottish Indian heritage and were commissioned by Baltic in Newcastle in
2017. Jasleen Kaur (born 1986)
studied at Glasgow School of Art (2008) and Royal College
of Art (2010). Recent exhibitions include ‘Houses Are Really Bodies: The Writing of Leonora
Carrington’, Cubitt Gallery, London (2017), ’Fugazi’, Division of Labour,
London (2017), and ‘Fountain 17’, Hull City of Culture (2017).
calls ‘the malleability of cultures’ and how material objects hold social as
well as formal readings. Working sculpturally and with installation and
self-portraiture her work embraces ideas of cultural and material hybridity.
Her Cairns can be seen to draws on
her Scottish Indian heritage and were commissioned by Baltic in Newcastle in
2017. Jasleen Kaur (born 1986)
studied at Glasgow School of Art (2008) and Royal College
of Art (2010). Recent exhibitions include ‘Houses Are Really Bodies: The Writing of Leonora
Carrington’, Cubitt Gallery, London (2017), ’Fugazi’, Division of Labour,
London (2017), and ‘Fountain 17’, Hull City of Culture (2017).
Ian McKeever studied English Literature and began painting in the late 1960s having rented a
studio in London Fields. His first solo exhibition was at the ICA in London in
1973. His early work showed an interest in the conceptual relationships between
landscape, painting and photography. In the late 80s having been awarded the
DAAD scholarship in Berlin, his work began to focus more explicitly on the
material qualities of painting-itself and its relationship to light and the
human body. Ian
McKeever (born 1945) lives and works in Dorset. He held a Retrospective at the
Whitechapel Gallery in 1990 and has had recent solo exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010, Sønderjylland Kunstmuseum, 2011,
Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, 2012 and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, 2014.
studio in London Fields. His first solo exhibition was at the ICA in London in
1973. His early work showed an interest in the conceptual relationships between
landscape, painting and photography. In the late 80s having been awarded the
DAAD scholarship in Berlin, his work began to focus more explicitly on the
material qualities of painting-itself and its relationship to light and the
human body. Ian
McKeever (born 1945) lives and works in Dorset. He held a Retrospective at the
Whitechapel Gallery in 1990 and has had recent solo exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010, Sønderjylland Kunstmuseum, 2011,
Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, 2012 and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, 2014.
Sean Scully is a leading abstract painter
known for his rich oil-paintings that are built from solid and luscious blocks
of colour. His paintings are known for their careful color relationships and
the robust way he handles paint. Although these works are resolutely abstract
in 2006 he stated how he “remember growing up in Ireland and everything being chequered, even the
fields and the people.” Sean Scully (born 1945) Scully has also
exhibited photographic work that often reflects the texture and construction of
walls and surfaces. Sean Scully (born 1945) Lives and works in New York and
Bavaria, and studied at Central School of Art (1965) and Croydon College of Art
and Newcastle University (1965-8) he was twice nominated for the Turner Prize
(1989, 1993) and a retrospective of his work ‘Sean Scully: Grey Wolf’ was held at Kunstmuseum
Bern, Bern, Switzerland in 2012.
known for his rich oil-paintings that are built from solid and luscious blocks
of colour. His paintings are known for their careful color relationships and
the robust way he handles paint. Although these works are resolutely abstract
in 2006 he stated how he “remember growing up in Ireland and everything being chequered, even the
fields and the people.” Sean Scully (born 1945) Scully has also
exhibited photographic work that often reflects the texture and construction of
walls and surfaces. Sean Scully (born 1945) Lives and works in New York and
Bavaria, and studied at Central School of Art (1965) and Croydon College of Art
and Newcastle University (1965-8) he was twice nominated for the Turner Prize
(1989, 1993) and a retrospective of his work ‘Sean Scully: Grey Wolf’ was held at Kunstmuseum
Bern, Bern, Switzerland in 2012.
Roy Voss works with found objects
and indeed found epic landscapes. Working with installation, sculpture and
photography his work brings a laconic inquisitiveness to disrupt, disorientate
and re-present the interconnections between the visual and written. Roy Voss
(born 1960) studied at Maidstone College of Art (1983) and Goldsmiths College
(1992), Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Miss’, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth and South
Square Gallery, Bradford (2014); ‘Cast’, Matt’s
Gallery & Dilston Grove, Dilston Grove, London (2012). He has a major solo
exhibition opening at the De La Warr Pavilion in 2017.
and indeed found epic landscapes. Working with installation, sculpture and
photography his work brings a laconic inquisitiveness to disrupt, disorientate
and re-present the interconnections between the visual and written. Roy Voss
(born 1960) studied at Maidstone College of Art (1983) and Goldsmiths College
(1992), Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Miss’, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth and South
Square Gallery, Bradford (2014); ‘Cast’, Matt’s
Gallery & Dilston Grove, Dilston Grove, London (2012). He has a major solo
exhibition opening at the De La Warr Pavilion in 2017.