Exhibition

Richard Galloway: Dolor

15 Jan 2011 – 9 Feb 2011

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Richard Galloway makes large linocuts featuring meticulous depictions of London's East End, using a rich vocabulary of motifs, patterns and mark marking developed over the last ten years. The starting point for Galloway's dark narratives is the world around him. He's right there in the middle of the action, at the local barber's boozer or in the betting shop, or rising pre-dawn to accompany dustmen on their morning rounds. Dolor showcases Richard Galloway's new, eponymously titled linocut. Marking a shift in Galloway's work, Dolor, conjures up an entirely imagined allegoric snapshot with the vantage point now 'zoomed out'; a fictitious sin-city thriving on ideas of social change, conflict, faith and struggle, while satirical observations celebrate all that is ludicrous and enchanting about English life and society. These are images that reward a closer look; layer upon layer of beautifully rendered detail make Galloway's linocuts not only a modern day Grammar of Ornament, but also a morality play, peopled by sinners and saints. Galloway's work is always humorous, dark and lovingly rendered. Your close attention will be rewarded. Dolor will be accompanied by two previous works, Stringarms and Mariella.

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