Talk
Art Speak - Second Saturday Artist Talk Series
13 Jun 2015
Abbey Walk Gallery
Grimsby, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Harry Ousey - Centenary Landscapes
27 May 2015 – 27 Jun 2015
Event times
Tuesday to Saturday 10-5pm
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 8 Abbey Walk
- Grimsby
- DN31 1NB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 5 mins walk from Grimsby train and bus station
Event map
Born in Manchester in1915, Harry Ousey's recognisable abstract paintings were considered to be ahead of his time.
About
During the 1950's his distilled naturalism, alighting on structural landmarks like hill profiles, tidal marks in sand or dry stone walls, chimed with abstracting modern Cornish ar in general and with the work of Scott, Lanyon, Frost, Hilton or Barnsgraham in particular.
Centred on the celbrated colony of St. Ives, these artists were natural bedfellow for a Northern artist who, despite his decided origins, became a preipatetic figure...
(2015, Harry Ousey, A Centenary Exhibition, Salford Museum and Art Gallery in association with Goldmark Gallery Uppingham)
