This weekend I spent some time at Vane Gallery, which contained one solo exhibition From Spice World to Brexit by Jock Mooney and the collaborative exhibition Back Put Together It by Stephen Palmer and Roland Hicks.
The exhibition by Palmer and Hicks was of interest for my design project as it focussed on works which have been cut-up, disfigured and reassembled, reflecting materialities which has been a recent strand of interest in my work.
'Through their depictions of cut-up, disfigured, deconstructed and reassembled forms, Roland Hicks and Stephen Palmer attempt to make sense of an increasingly fractured world.
Roland Hicks’ recent ‘Dissemblage’ works make use of trompe l’oeil techniques to make paintings and objects that look like modernist abstract assemblages, apparently stapled together from found offcuts of various types of chipboard.
These works offer very different readings from different distances; from the back of the room they appear as pieces of minimal geometric abstraction, a little closer and they seem instead to be Neo-Dada or Arte Povera found material assemblage pieces, closer still they reveal themselves as painted illusions, before at very close range returning, once more, to abstraction. They are not based on direct observation of a pre-existent model, so are arguably works of pure (albeit deliberately limited) imagination.'
Images of Palmer and Hicks' Back Put Together It
Jock Mooney's From Spice World to Brexit
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