Exhibition

Basil Beattie, When Now Becomes Then: Three Decades

20 Feb 2016 – 12 Jun 2016

Regular hours

Saturday
10:00 – 16:30
Sunday
12:00 – 16:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 16:30
Wednesday
10:00 – 16:30
Thursday
10:00 – 16:30
Friday
10:00 – 16:30

Cost of entry

Free

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  • 5 minutes walk from Middlesbrough Bus Station
  • 10 mintue walk from Middlesbrough Train Station
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This exhibition surveys Beattie's practice from the 1980s to today. It features paintings of architectural motifs charged with feelings of imprisonment or freedom.

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This exhibition surveys the British, Teesside-born painter Basil Beattie’s practice from the mid-1980s to today and is an opportunity to discover connections between his past and more recent production. Beattie is notable for his personal take on Western pictorial traditions, particularly Abstract Expressionism. Prominent themes of his works include the inscription of naïve motifs within a grid structure as well as references to architecture through evocations of ziggurats, doors, steps, and tunnels.

Beattie’s output is nonrepresentational, but it has a distinct existential character. As he puts it, ‘the works speak of human qualities of being – emotional and psychological – with metaphorical signs playing a part in them’.The gestural brushstrokes and bold fields of colourdemonstrate a sensuous, bodily approach to paint. The symbols connect inner feelings with lived experience, suggesting a spiritual engagement with the world.

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