Gareth Cadwallader - Hannah Barry Gallery - London

January 20th - March 3rd 2011

This is the artist's second solo show and marks a radical departure from the small oil paintings he has produced for the last four years. Installed in the gallery are mural-sized photographic billboards - capturing idyllic figurative scenes reminiscent of French Impressionism - and two new abstract paintings. Wedged floor-to-roof is a monolithic canvas seven metres high. Mounted on the mechanism of an orbital sander a second painting vibrates loudly, shattering the leisurely summer atmosphere of the photographs.

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