Exhibition
Roland Hicks
3 Feb 2007 – 24 Mar 2007
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Address
- The Park
- Newtown
- SY16 2NZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The Gallery is beside the Newtown Bus Station, serving local and National routes.
- Newtown, Powys Station is 10 minutes walk.
About
Paintings by Roland Hicks have a cinematic quality whereby everyday objects are given an unlikely sense of beauty.The subjects of his works are often discarded or unnoticed objects from everyday life: unravelled cassette tapes, bubbles on the top of a washing up bottle, hair on a hairbrush. More recently, however, he has begun to study the way in which discarded items can take on a new life, when taken out of their original context, and his latest paintings concentrate on the phantasmagorical nature of chewing gum as it stretches up between the pavement and the bottom of a shoe.
Working from photographs, Hicks begins with a close-up photograph of a singular object and transfers it onto canvas to create a seemingly photo-realistic copy of the original. His work has a deceptive clarity however, and although faithfully translated from the photograph, the objects are displaced from their original settings, leaving them marooned within their own unidentified space.
This is the first solo exhibition by Roland Hicks in Wales.
Artists in Conversation
Exhibiting artists John Salt and Roland Hicks will talk about various aspects of their work and the creative processes that inspire them
Date & Time:Saturday 3 February, 3pm
Free
Exhibition Tour
Join Exhibitions Officer Emma WIlliams for an informal discussion about the works in the gallery
Date & Time:Wednesday 7 March, 12.15pm
Free
