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Aidan Myers, Detail of Reconcile, Oil on Canvas, 2016
Exhibition
New Matter
15 Jul 2016 – 30 Jul 2016
Event times
15th- 30th July
Private view Friday 15th July
Open Friday and Saturday 11-4pm
Address
- 4 John Street Stroud, Gloucestershire
- Stroud
Gloucestershire - GL5 2HA
- United Kingdom
Aidans paintings have a energetic quality, not only because of the colour, but the figurative aspects in the paintings. His compositions emphasize the movement of body like forms throughout the paintings.
About
‘New Matter’
15.07.16 - 30.07.16
Private View: Friday 15th July 2016 6-9pm
Line Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire
Public Openings - Fridays and Saturdays 11-4pm
PRESS RELEASE
‘New Matter’ is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Aidan Myers.
Myers’ painting's inhabit the spaces between the body and material world, a space in which the realm of the body and the materiality of the medium are expressed through gesture. Focussing attention upon the energetic processes that result in form, Myers’ compositions makes visible the tensions, resistances and co-operations between human and non-human agents — an autobiographical rendering of invisible interplays between matter, physiology and the cosmos.
Myers’ activity of painting is like a dance between hand, brush, paint and canvas in which each take the lead at different moments of the activity; a dialogue between human and non-human worlds. This emerging choreography is expressed through gesture, a literal composition of material, chemical and bodily worlds fixed in paint.
The ambiguous presentation of forms remains potential and open, one hand constantly held out inviting the viewer to continue the choreography through their own perceptual involvement as they strive to find significance in un-recognisable forms.
Line Gallery is intended to support and enliven the careers of emerging artists, giving them a platform from which to exhibit work without creative constraints or financial commitment. The curators Jessie James and Rosalie Darien Jones strive to show work of all media and from all backgrounds with the aim of creating a space for the development of new ideas and nurturing artistic excellence
Dr Martyn Woodward,
Senior Lecturer at Cardiff School of Art & Design
