THG
Artist Talk:
Thursday 18 March, 7pm. (Doors open 6.45pm)
*£2 on the door
Artist Simon
Liddiment will be In conversation
with curator Michelle Cotton, CUBITT, London discussing his practice and the new body of work Pictorial Constructs currently on view in THG’s Gallery 1.
Part of an ongoing series of talks and discussions in collaboration with Artists for Arts Sake, Mid-Suffolk
District Council. *Free to Artists for Arts
Sake members (artsdevelopment@midsuffolk.gov.uk)
Simon
Liddiment
Pictorial Constructs
Until Saturday 3 April
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am -
5pm, FREE
This
is the first of two consecutive solo exhibitions that demonstrate distinctly
different approaches to the conventions of the landscape.
Liddiment’s
ideas driven work emerges from both the hands-on manipulation of materials and
our preconceptions, and frequently uses cliché as its ‘raw’ material. This body
of new work, Pictorial Constructs,
follows this rationale to the letter, and is concerned with the physical and
spatial exploration of a single plane.
Typically
‘weathered’, the genesis of each piece is a single plywood sheet; in response
to which, Liddiment’s method is exclusively one of subtraction. If previously
painted, he may alter the patina of the found surface by the wholesale removal
of a layer of paint, but the dominant action is one of repetitive woodcutting.
Sawn incrementally, in ever-decreasing widths, until he meets a pre-determined
‘horizon’, the graduated strips are sequentially re-united to form a solid wall
based object with implied perspective.
Each
composition is uniquely rendered, and under such concerted attention, the ply
veneer progressively delaminates towards the sheet’s centre. Subtly splintered bands
diminish into dense corrosion and flatter sky, so that one might perceive an
autumnal stubble field with pixelated noise at the point where
land-meets-horizon-meets-sky. Elsewhere more stark connotations are offered
through the use of material with less evident history.
The
matter-of-fact treatment of the wood effectively parries the illusion
throughout, yet our ‘willingness’ to read the resultant ‘landscapes’ as complex
spatial propositions refuses to be undermined, even by the known simplicity of
the ruled graphic device the work employs.
Simon Liddiment graduated from
Goldsmiths’ College in 1985 and his work was recently included in ZOO 2009, The Sculpture Show V22 presents, London, SALE The Royal Standard, Liverpool, and Animated at Wysing Arts, Cambridge. In
late 2010 he will be participating in EAST goes East, an EASTinternational project with exhibitions at
Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow and Trafó Gallery, Budapest. This is his first
exhibition in Suffolk
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