Forthcoming Exhibitions

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RAW

Pertwee Anderson & Gold gallery
7th October to 27th October 2011

Artists:

Peter Bailey
Jaap De Vries
Erik Sommer
Michael Petry
Eric Butcher

RAW looks at the use of different materials being used in the practice of contemporary artists in a way that clearly embraces the material. The majority of the work has some, if not total, abstraction which directs the viewer to the surface rather than being distracted by a literal narrative. Each artist embraces the constraints of their chosen material, celebrating the raw, natural marks and working with the material, not just on it.

For more details visit: www.pertweeandersongold.com

Publication launch

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Material Witness is an 84 page book documenting the period of Eric Butcher’s residency at Benson-Sedgwick Engineering in 2008/10. With text by Roy Exley, Eric Butcher & the Aluminium Works, Material Witness is published by the Centre for Art International Research, Liverpool and distributed by Cornerhouse Publications ISBN 978-0-9557360-4-9. Click on the link below to order a copy: www.cornerhouse.org

Eric Butcher & the Aluminium Works

Roy Exley

“Art does not seek to describe but to enact”. Charles Olson.

There is something extremely seductive about the mint-bright surfaces of freshly fabricated metal, there is a decidedly haptic attraction about them, and we feel a certain compulsion to touch them.

Aluminium is no exception. The miniature corrugations, stripes
and irregularities that narrate the story and express the nature of the production processes also dictate, guided, gliding along the corruga- tions, the smoothness of feel, an illusion.