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Conversion, 2021, acrylic paint on canvas
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Untitled, 2021, compressed charcoal on paper
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Untitled (After 'Polyptych of Perugia' by Piero Della Francesca), 2021, acrylic paint on canvas
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Halo, 2020, Giclee print hand finished with 22 carat gold
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Untitled (After 'The Last Judgement' by Jean Bellegambe), 2021, acrylic paint on canvas
Exhibition
Alter
29 Jul 2021 – 15 Aug 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
28 Addington Street
Address
- Ramsgate
- Ramsgate
England - CT11 9JJ
- United Kingdom
Transience, touch, whitewashing and obfuscation: pertinent themes that are explored across painting, drawing and prints by Russell Chater.
About
Thoughts around transience and touch have been especially pertinent over the last 18 months, as have notions of whitewashing and obfuscation…
In prints (many taken around Thanet) of existing whitewashed windows, scribbled marks are carefully traced or framed with 22 carat gold. Love and sex, life and death, humour and pathos: all human life is here. The marks are at once crude and poetic, personal and universal – and now framed and memorialised.
Whitewashing and gold leaf are also used in paintings, whose referencing of altarpieces further frames spiritual, as well as spatial/architectural, readings. Here, the wash presents a kind of conflation as much as obfuscation, with the sweep of (art historical) time and space caught up in its swirls. Again, works oscillate between reverence and irreverence, the graphic and the gestural.
Obfuscation gives way to erasure in drawings, as energetic loops drawn with an eraser into compressed charcoal evoke turbulent states as much as spaces.
If you’re planning a seaside day-trip, the works in this show will offer a moment of quiet reflection away from the crowded beaches.
