Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Phoebe Unwin - Man made - Wilkinson Gallery - London



13 January to 6 March 2011

Wilkinson Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by Phoebe Unwin. This exhibition encompasses Unwin’s curious approach to painting: at once a destabilisation of expectations of style and form, coupled with a stern and enthused focus on realising a subject in paint. She cares for a painting’s physical qualities of material and scale in a way a sculptor might. These paintings feel part of our world, rather than a window to somewhere else. Each is a new possibility, differing in mark, material, scale and subject, with no repeated motif. With these formal interests and challenges, it may seem a perversity that these are figurative paintings, however, it is how image relates to material that is fundamental to the work.

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