Talk
Discussion: What Cannot Be Contained
17 Jun 2015
Smiths Row
Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
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Clare Price, Quiver, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 2014
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Loukas Morley, Stratum Journey 5 (yellow circle), spirit based pigment, resin, on birch ply board, 2014
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Robin Footitt, Gum Strip (c), flexed 2-colour anodised aluminium, 2014
Exhibition
What Cannot Be Contained: Contemporary British Painting
21 May 2015 – 4 Jul 2015
Event times
10.30am - 5.00pm
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- The Market Cross
- Bury St Edmunds
- IP33 1BT
- United Kingdom
Event map
What Cannot Be Contained is a group exhibition which offers three, different propositions towards an understanding of contemporary painting.
About
The exhibition places its focus on the enduring appeal of the materiality of paint, through the work of artists who use painting as their primary medium or as a central part of their practice. Prioritising the very act of painting and the nature of paint itself, it can be said the works within What Cannot Be Contained speak as much of 'painting' as they do of 'painters'.
The use of abstraction weaves between the artists' works, with gestural, physical, performative and perceptual concerns all pronounced. Spirited and generous uses of colour, texture and layering shift the emphasis towards the technical and material parameters of painting.
The works explore the threshold and limits of both the surface and canvas that simultaneously resists and contains its form: the boundary between content and its container.
This exhibition shows painting as a medium that materially, physically and theoretically, thrives when it is not contained.
