Exhibition
Solo Show of paintings and drawings by Gateshead based artist Dale Atkinson
1 Oct 2020 – 21 Nov 2020
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- 30 St Mary's Place
- Newcastle upon Tyne
England - NE1 7PQ
- United Kingdom
Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Dale Atkinson
About
Dale Atkinson is by most definitions a 'narrative artist', but not a 'start to finish' one and not a particularly obvious one. He last exhibited with Gallagher and Turner in 2017, in a solo show entitled 'Beeswinged'.
Atkinson is a figurative painter and draftsman whose work, as loosely allegoric as it is descriptive, relies upon the dynamo of suggestion to move it forward. Lost swimmers, passing comets, insomniacs laying traps for sleep or saw wielding manifestations of conscience will occupy the same uncertain arenas as chairs remembered from childhood and yesterday's bully. They tap into a short-circuited world of intrusive sub plot where reason, if it exists, is the dummy pill and figure, object, line and colour are left to guide the dialogue.
As a painter his approach from first to last mark is one of endless shifts and interrogations. Initial impulses can take root and develop, or survive only as fossilised traces, consumed by the painting’s own evolving direction. He explores the circular relationship between what is known or seen and the disarming, yet oddly more real, undertow of conspiratorial chatter lurking just beneath - the secret futility, that recognises itself and yet hopefully, instinctively continues to recalibrate.
Born in Sunderland in 1962, Atkinson first studied at Sunderland Art College and then at Newcastle University. Now living in Gateshead, he has exhibited nationally and internationally throughout his professional career. Atkinson’s paintings and drawings are held in public and private collections throughout the UK, USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.