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Frank Bowling (b.1934, Bartica, Guyana) is attracting ever-growing
international recognition as an abstract painter. This is the first
publication to examine Bowling's art and ideas in relation to
sculpture. Lavishly illustrated, it features an extended essay by
curator Sam Cornish charting Bowling's interactions with sculpture
since the 1960s. The book asks how seeing Bowling's sculpture, and
thinking about sculpture more broadly, may extend our understanding
of his pictorial language. Considering this relationship also
highlights the importance of sculpture to High Modernism, from
within which Bowling's mature art emerged. Also included are an
in-conversation between Allie Biswas and sculptor Thomas J. Price,
and a poem dedicated to Bowling by sculptor and author Barbara
Chase-Riboud.
In the decade before his death in 2011, John Hoyland began to
reckon with mortality. Confronting his own demise, he painted
elegies to departed artist friends and tributes to illustrious
artistic forebears. Imagery of the void looms large, but it is a
void faced with defiance and vitality, less a rumination on the end
than a celebration of life. This publication explores the paintings
Hoyland made in this decade, including his final series, the
Mysteries. Essays by Natalie Adamson, David Anfam, Matthew Collings
and Mel Gooding offer a rich and multifaceted account of a complex
body of work. Hoyland’s veneration of Vincent van Gogh, his
connections to J.M.W. Turner, the use of black as a colour, his
deployment of risk and attempts to subvert his own taste, and his
development of the cosmic visual language of the Abstract
Expressionists are all discussed. Richly illustrated, the book
extends our understanding of Hoyland’s late work within the story
of modern painting as a whole.
Founded in 1967, Stockwell Depot heralded the emergence of the
London artists' studio movement and gained international
recognition as a centre for abstraction in Britain. For over 25
years, this disused former brewery in south London functioned as a
cooperative studio and exhibition space. Artists associated with
the Depot - Roland Brener, Jennifer Durrant, David Evison,
Katherine Gili, Peter Hide and Roelof Louw, among many others -
held differing and often competing attitudes towards art. The
ambitious work made and shown at the Depot tells the story of late
modernism in Britain, tracing a period full of formal
experimentation and critical debate. Incorporating interviews with
10 artists alongside a major essay by Sam Cornish, this volume is
the first to examine the artists' activities within a historical
context and to track their development through the Depot's pivotal
annual exhibitions. Published to coincide with the exhibition
Stockwell Depot, 1967-79 at University of Greenwich Galleries,
London, 24 July-12 September 2015.
Constant Within the Change: Gary Wragg: Five Decades of Paintings:
A Comprehensive Catalogue surveys the work of abstract painter Gary
Wragg. Trained at Camberwell School of Art and the Slade, Wragg
announced himself in the mid-seventies with two dramatic
exhibitions at London's Acme Gallery. Since then he has exhibited
widely and internationally and has work in public collections
including the Arts Council Collection, the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge and the Pompidou, Paris. Texts by Hilary Spurling,
Terence Maloon, Matthew Collings, Sam Cornish, Stefanie
Sachsenmaier and Wragg himself explore various aspects of his art -
including his relation to American Abstract Expressionism and
friendship with painters Jack Tworkov and Willem de Kooning; and
his practice of Tai-Chi, of which he is one of Europe's leading
experts. In two volumes Constant Within the Change includes over
five hundred full-color images, and comes with access to an online
catalogue of Wragg's work.
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