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Untitled No.52, 2017, Tar and metal paint on canvas, 110 x 112cm
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Semi-Lunar #1, 2015 Tar and metal paint on canvas, 110 x 112cm
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Untitled #23, 2015 Tar and metal paint on canvas, 224 X 90
Exhibition
Tar Paintings
19 Jan 2018 – 17 Feb 2018
Address
- 107 Essex Road
- Canonbury
- London
- N1 2SL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 38, 56, 73, 341, 476 (and on neary Upper Street 4, 19, 30, 43)
- Angel, Highbury & Islington
- Essex Road
Tintype is pleased to present Eleanor Bartlett’s Tar Paintings, a solo-presentation of Bartlett’s recent works using tar as her primary medium.
About
Tar: road surfaces, roofs, waterproofing - extracted from the ground or industrially synthesised from coal, petroleum, peat, wood - hard-wearing, hard-working, toil, endurance, tactility, viscosity.
Painting with tar requires a sculptural approach, Bartlett primes the canvases with white metal paint, then applies the tar with trowel, sticks, knives, and her hands, using a spare palette of creams, blacks and browns.
Eleanor Bartlett’s work has a raw, visceral intensity. Her main impetus and driving force is to describe and resolve elemental form.
