Exhibition

Views from the Cloud Chamber

8 May 2021 – 12 Jun 2021

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
11:00 – 17:00
Thursday
11:00 – 17:00
Friday
11:00 – 17:00
Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Sunday
Closed

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Project 78 Gallery

St Leonards On Sea
England, United Kingdom

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Project 78 Gallery re-opens with 'Views from the Cloud Chamber' an exhibition of paintings by the artist Rory Prout

About

Rory Prout's paintings are made with oil paint on wooden panels, but also with ash, chalk, gesso, wax and resin. They are an effort to reinvent the painting medium for the artist, in order to try and understand it, to define some part of it.

That definitive part that Prout comes back to is the trace of an absent subject; the indexical sign normally associated with photography. Painting, however, is a self-indulgent activity and the traces it fixes are always those of the painter. Prout distils this aspect of painting by resisting it, by trying to shed all signs of the painter’s hand so that it is all the more evident when it does inevitably show. Digital design, mechanical processes and an effort to maintain control of unstable materials are all part of this attempt to depict themes in the paintings that are analogies to absent subjects and to indexical traces suspended in a medium.

Structures abandoned in landscapes, objects that indicate missing figures, optical effects manifested by the shadow of their viewer, and the tracks of atomic particles left in vapour are among the images in these works.

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Rory Prout

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