Solo exhibitions : TEN, Cardiff & Alice Black, London, Sept.-Oct.2018
‘Space, Hope and Altered Estates’
New paintings 2017-18
Parallel solo exhibitions : Cardiff & London
TEN, Cardiff : 8th Sept – 20th Oct.
Alice Black, London : 14th Sept. – 26th Oct.
TEN. HOME GALLERY
143 DONALD ST
CARDIFF CF24 4TP
OPEN BY APPOINTMENT
+44 | (0)2920 60 0495
www.gallery-ten.co.uk
Alice Black
47 BERWICK STREET (1ST FL)
SOHO, LONDON
W1F 8SQ
Wednesday – Friday, 10am–6pm
Saturday, 11am–4pm
and otherwise by appointment.
+44(0) 20 7734 7018
+44(0) 77 4348 8626
info@aliceblackart.com
alice@aliceblackart.com
www.aliceblackart.com
‘Space, Hope and Altered Estates’
Astro-civics, cosmic utopias, spectral blueprints, eternal war and secular transcendence.
In these new paintings I continue to explore themes of communities and their dissolution often relating to trauma and conflict, with art as a redemptive proposition. I use allusions to architecture; places of habitation such as Britain’s New Towns, housing estates, military installations, and the occupation and civilianisation of contested space through settlement to hopefully suggest the uncertainty of human-historical time. The current work is therefore concerned with ideas of utopia as a teleological state where creating new worlds produces a doctrine of endless and intractable conflict.
