David Austen
Sally O’Reilly
This publication marks the most comprehensive exhibition by David Austen for over ten years. It brings together a significant body of work including the distinctive paintings and works on paper for which he has become widely known, a recently made film and hanging sculptures, both of which signal a new and important departure. For the artist, much of his source material is derived from observations of the everyday world around him; a chance remark, a book cover, the crime thrillers and literature he covets or a newspaper headline that, removed from its original context, becomes invested with new meaning. Within Austen's work, the landscape of text, repeated abstract patterns and graphic forms becomes a measure of time - from the months it may take to finish a canvas to the moments to create a watercolour of one of his tiny figures.
Milton Keynes Gallery
Hardcover
2007
26 x 21 cm
£20
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Sally O’Reilly
This publication marks the most comprehensive exhibition by David Austen for over ten years. It brings together a significant body of work including the distinctive paintings and works on paper for which he has become widely known, a recently made film and hanging sculptures, both of which signal a new and important departure. For the artist, much of his source material is derived from observations of the everyday world around him; a chance remark, a book cover, the crime thrillers and literature he covets or a newspaper headline that, removed from its original context, becomes invested with new meaning. Within Austen's work, the landscape of text, repeated abstract patterns and graphic forms becomes a measure of time - from the months it may take to finish a canvas to the moments to create a watercolour of one of his tiny figures.
Milton Keynes Gallery
Hardcover
2007
26 x 21 cm
£20
Enquire