Abstraction & Aeriality | 02.06 - 22.07.2023
Abstract art in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s was charged by ideas of freedom and liberation. Sculpture could be free-standing, released from the plinth, and painting free-floating, given a life beyond the frame. Art could escape the coordinates of narrative and the memorial. This in-focus exhibition, Abstraction & Aeriality, gives insight into this subject, through the work of David Annesley (b. 1936), Richard Smith (1931-2016) and William Turnbull (1922-2012). The works on display all show the intriguing ways in which these artists let the aerial inform their work, taking it to new and imaginative levels. - Dr. Jon Wood
David Annesley, Loquat, 1965