Taking its title from a quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins, this exhibition takes Hopkin’s idea of the ‘inscape’ as a jumping off point to explore the distillation of form and cartoon compression of a subject into painted and sculpted images. The exhibition will consist of paintings and sculptures both wall and floor based and seek to create an environment which hovers between the urban and rural, cerebral and bodily.
Hopkins defined Inscape as the ‘The outward reflection of an inner nature of a thing. Whether it is through the exaggerated cartoon line, the dismantled figure or the compression of motif there is a move to push through to something closer to the experience of that thing. The artists are less concerned with trying to create an accurate facsimile of a body, jug or scene, instead there is a shared irreverent yet sincere approach to making works that sit both within yet beyond our daily experience.
The exhibition brings together artists from Norfolk, London, Sweden and Iceland in a regional and international exchange of ideas and work. These artists’ works are joined by the work of the British figurative painter Ken Kiff (1935-2001), who’s work provides a link in a chain of influence and inspiration as well as joyful expression of the poetry of the everyday.
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