Forthcoming Exhibitions

Published October 7, 2011

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

Published November 2, 2010

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.

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