Exhibition
Oscar & Ivor - Ouch!
17 Aug 2021 – 28 Aug 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 09:30 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 09:30 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 09:30 – 17:00
- Friday
- 09:30 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 09:30 – 17:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- 7-15 Fye Bridge Street
- Norwich
- NR3 1BT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 9,10,11,26 ,27
- Norwich
An exhibition of contemporary work exploring masculinity and the covid-19 lockdown.
About
A statement from the artists:
Oscar Butcher
"Oscar is in his 1st year at Goldsmiths in London where, when he isn’t refining his urban skateboarding technique, he is discovering the joy of self-directed creativity.
Oscar’s work explores a state of troubled masculinity through depictions of anthropomorphic figures. Taking aesthetic inspiration from the likes of Henri Matisse and Philip Guston, the work also seeks to readdress the material hierarchies established within traditional painting.
Line and form can be seen battling for relevance amongst his cartoon-like figures, whose motives are suggested primally through body language and crude, emoji-like facial expressions."
Ivor Butcher
"My story is probably true of countless people around the globe, forced by the COVID 19 lock down to spend a lot of time reflecting on life, the past, the future and one's place in it.
For around 40 years, I've made things, flirting around the edges of the art and design world, but never having the confidence to believe I could be part of it.
Over the last 9 months, however, something has changed. With no formal art school training, I'm not sure I'm equipped with the vocabulary to describe why I'm creating what I do. My art is of the moment, it's unplanned, each piece unique and made by hand.
I am influenced by and steal ideas from everyone whose work excites me. If observers respond to my work in any way, be it the form, colour, their physical structure, then my time has been well spent."