Brendan Fletcher
www.brendanfletcher.co.uk
@brendan.fletcher.1426
Statement:
Painting is a declaration of sorts. A painting establishes a set of rules and operations that suggest they have always existed. The paintings here draw upon tropes of Modernist abstraction and in particular, a very British lyrical abstraction. They make a play of the gestural mark and its importance as a signifier of the hand-made, the ill-disciplined and the transgressive. The work presents loosely adumbrated motifs sitting on an invisible horizon line. They are quasi-figurative. The motifs move in and out of recognition; a flag, a podium, a sculpture, counters on a board game. The paintings are an attempt to articulate concerns about political structures, people and events.
www.brendanfletcher.co.uk
@brendan.fletcher.1426
Statement:
Painting is a declaration of sorts. A painting establishes a set of rules and operations that suggest they have always existed. The paintings here draw upon tropes of Modernist abstraction and in particular, a very British lyrical abstraction. They make a play of the gestural mark and its importance as a signifier of the hand-made, the ill-disciplined and the transgressive. The work presents loosely adumbrated motifs sitting on an invisible horizon line. They are quasi-figurative. The motifs move in and out of recognition; a flag, a podium, a sculpture, counters on a board game. The paintings are an attempt to articulate concerns about political structures, people and events.
Untitled (yellow)
30 x 40cm Acrylic on primed gesso panel 2022 |
Untited (Green)
30 x 40cm Acrlic on primed gesso panel 2022 |