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
Address
- 78 Norman Road
- St Leonards On Sea
England - TN38 0BJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- St Leonards Warrior Square
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.