Structure and Imagery

Work by Robin Greenwood and Gary Wragg Curator Sam Cornish talks about the work in Transformations A conversation with exhibiting sculptor Robin Greenwood Exhibiting artists and curator, Robin Greenwood, Gary Wragg and Sam Cornish. Transformations: Sculptures by Robin Greenwood / Paintings by Gary Wragg curated by Sam Cornish  May 5 - 27, 2018 Linden Hall Studio 32 St. George's Road Deal, Kent CT14 6BA From the Press Release: Both Robin Greenwood and Gary Wragg see abstract art in terms of freedom. Beginning with freedom for the artist, this is ultimately and most importantly a freedom for the viewer. Both artists offer us a freedom to explore, to imaginatively engage with – and be moved by – structures discovered in the process of creation. Both artists envision space as manifold, articulating it with structures which are multi-dimensional, full of diversity. They encourage an active viewer. They want to keep us on our toes. Complexity is app...

(click image to enlarge) From the press release: Bunker ’s primary material is the detritus he finds on the streets in and around Stepney, where he lives and works. Torn posters, shattered CDs, abandoned chicken-shop boxes are formed into abstract structures, in which the century-long tradition of collage fuses with the immediacy of gestural painting. A deep engagement with the history of abstract art is given urgency by animplicit acknowledgement of the unreality of the virtual spaces in which we are increasingly enmeshed. Mounted on MDF panels, the Fugue series is Bunker’s most complex and unashamedly ‘aesthetic’ to date, drawing particularly on the Cubist still-lives of Juan Gris. A de-centered approach to composition is married to a newly sophisticated colour-sense. His talent for formal invention – for walking the line between refinement and crudity, directness and illusion – is on full display. Though small in size the collages have a generous sense of scale....