What Is This Place? - Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange

What Is This Place?

Image: Lady Latitude by Ben Sanderson
Image: Lady in White by Corinna Spencer
Image: Night and Day by Freya Douglas-Morris
Image: As It Breaks by Gordon Dalton
Image: The Festival Of Britain by Ben Sanderson
Image: Pot and Fiddle II by Romi Behrens
Image: Panetone and Geraniums with Sculpture by Romi Behrens
Image: By Lucy Stein
Image: Future Islands by Gordon Dalton
Image: The Illusionist by Freya Douglas-Morris

22 Apr — 15 Jul 2017

Newlyn Art Gallery

The paintings by the eight artists in this exhibition share a sense of improvisation. Like the act of drawing, they are a way for the artist to work through ideas and pose questions. Their marks have been made with a speed and spontaneity, executed quickly to capture changing thoughts and situations.

Some of the artists have been drawn to a particular location or subject, repeatedly, to better understand it; tapping away till it reveals itself. For others, there is an underlying questioning of the social and political landscape of the world today.

Memory, and its fluid versions of truth, often acts as a source or starting point, to revisit, to reimagine. From the commonplace to the cosmic, the eight artists in this exhibition are questioning with paint, What is this place?

Opening Event: Fri 21 Apr 19.00 – 21.00, Little Wonder Café and pay bar, free entry, all welcome.

Artists’ Discussion: Sat 22 Apr, 11.00. Join the exhibiting artists and curator Blair Todd for an informal discussion about works in the exhibition. Free with admission.

Participating artists