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Image by Paul Eastwood
Exhibition
The Spolia Drawings by Paul Eastwood
9 Jun 2022 – 2 Jul 2022
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Free admission
Address
- 176-178 High Street
- Eston
- Middlesbrough
England - TS6 9JA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 63, 64, 64a bus from Redcar or Middlesbrough
- Redcar, Middlesbrough or South Bank train station and get a bus from there
Spolia are fragments of old art and architecture incorporated into new structures, where they assume and impose fresh meanings. In The Spolia Drawings, Paul Eastwood exhibits a series of new works at Eston Arts Centre alongside the research drawings that formed their inspiration.
About
Eston Arts Centre is pleased to announce the opening of our next exhibition, The Spolia Drawings by Paul Eastwood which opens this Thursday 9 June from 6 - 8pm, and continues until July 2nd.
In The Spolia Drawings, Paul Eastwood exhibits a series of new works alongside the research drawings that formed their inspiration, which he created during his Fellowship at the British School at Rome. Spolia are fragments of old art and architecture incorporated into new structures, where they assume and impose fresh meanings. The City of Rome – a palimpsest of history – abounds in spolia, rubbed imprints of which are on display in the show. Eastwood’s new drawings use the same technique of rubbing to call into being an imaginary architecture of the historic British Isles. Monumental disassembled stone blocks, interspersed with broken inscriptions, are restacked to form new patterns. Their weathered surfaces vie for attention with encroaching ivy. The viewer is invited to consider what original constructions they might have stemmed from, and also why they would have been repurposed and by whom: what are the meanings of the new versus the old?
Paul Eastwood was educated at Wimbledon School of Arts and the Royal Academy Schools. He won the inaugural NOVA Art Prize, Wales in 2017, and was Creative Wales Fellow at the British School at Rome in 2020. His film Dyfodiaith is screened this summer in Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, and a solo show will open in September at Galeri, Caernarfon.
Eastwood treats art as material storytelling. He creates imagined histories and futures to investigate how spaces, artefacts, and memory communicate identities. Language – fleeting or imprinted, natural or invented, hegemonic or minority – is a constant object and medium of his practice.
Exhibition continues until July 2nd.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Free. All welcome
Image by Paul Eastwood
The Spolia Drawings
Paul Eastwood
June 9 - July 2
Eston Arts Centre
176-178 High Street
Eston
Middlesbrough
TS6 9JA
