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Dominic Shepherd | Solo Art Exhibition | CHARLIE SMITH
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Dominic Shepherd | Solo Art Exhibition | CHARLIE SMITH
Exhibition
Dominic Shepherd | Solo Art Exhіbіtіon | CHARLIE SMITH
23 Jun 2017 – 29 Jul 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free.
Address
- 336 Old Street
- London
- EC1V 9DR
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 8, 26, 48, 55, 67, 388
- Tube: Old St (Exit 2) or Liverpool St
Landscape and figure paintings by Dominic Shepherd investigating folk, Romanticism & Englishness at Shoreditch art gallery CHARLIE SMITH LONDON. Alastair Gordon & Hugh Mendes in the project space.
About
Dominic Shepherd continues to marry a deep and ongoing interest in mythology with a personalised, idiosyncratic worldview. The paintings in this exhibition reach beyond the personal and historical to the political.
"Britain, surrounded by water, is a haunted isle. Colonialism; slavery; conquest; feudalism; reformation; democracy; civil war. Every locus is invested with ghosts of the past, a misty and sentimentalised landscape."
In a climate where nationalism has gained so much traction globally, Shepherd addresses the relationship between actual and nostalgic notions of received traditions, opening onto a consideration of the complex relationship between Romanticism, folk, patriotism and nationalism. Viewed in the shadow of fundamental political change, Shepherd has been forced to confront his interest in English folk and Englishness, and ask where, and how, these themes have been recontextualised. Being aware of nationalism's tendency to mine and appropriate folk traditions, and a new sensitivity towards the localised and regional, Shepherd allows these concerns to permeate beneath the surface.
Shepherd employs water as a newly dominant motif. Figures are found submerged, wading or crossing bodies of water that he encounters daily in the wooded estate where he lives in Dorset. Sinuous rills, lakes, dew ponds, streams, storm drains, culverts, canals and weirs are permanently transitory and allude to the hidden.
These paintings continue an evolution in Shepherd's practice where meaning and presence have become increasingly oblique. The ghosts to which he refers are those of the past, who populate a civilisation's historical narrative, or an individual's memory or unconscious.
The event will take place at CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, 336 Old Street, Shoreditch, London EC1V 9DR. Open from 11am-6pm Wednesday to Saturday. Please contact the gallery for further information on 020 7739 4055. Follow the gallery @CHARLIESMITHldn
Category: Arts | Visual Arts | Galleries / Art.
Artist / Speaker: Dominic Shepherd.
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