Title: The secret life of objects: recent paintings
Abstract:Peacock has been successfully represented by the Portal gallery since 1978. He has undertaken commissions and been included in many group shows during this time. He was invited to hold a solo exhibiti...Peacock has been successfully represented by the Portal gallery since 1978. He has undertaken commissions and been included in many group shows during this time. He was invited to hold a solo exhibition there in 2004. The exhibition consisted of around 20 new paintings produced specifically for the show. The paintings are deeply researched manifestations of ongoing preoccupations with specific objects, their depiction and meaning. An accompanying essay exemplifying his research ethos was written by Andrew Brewerton, Principal of Dartington College of the Arts and Honorary Professor of Fine Art at Shanghai University, based on a series of interviews with the artist. This provides a scholarly insight into some of the concerns and motivations behind the work, while placing it firmly within the framework of contemporary art practice. ‘Peacock’s oneiric labour is less dream-work than conscious daylight reverie, its atmosphere distilling pure detail in successively finer brushstrokes – a patient and focussed elaboration of images involving time both as a worked duration and as a mental space in which subject and object may, or may not achieve, albeit temporary, reconciliation’. This essay was included in the illustrated publication “Secret Lives of Objects” (ISBN 0-9548582-0-4)Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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