John Moores 25
This exhibition is being held at the Walker Art Gallery, 20 September 2008 - 9 January 2009
Oil, acrylic and tempera on board, 25 x 20 cm, 2007
When I was a kid I remember finding a UFO lying on the ground in my neighbour's
driveway. Well, when I got real close it turned out to be just some piece of
automotive trash. But for a moment I supposed...and I still get that feeling
sometimes, reeling under the sweep of the Milky Way. It is a tidal thing, a brief, slight
creation that exists only in an uneasy balance of opposing energies. A painting's
surface might be thought of in the same way, a site balanced between entropy and
some impossible static vitality.
Sputnik: earthbound, or crashed into some other Black Crystal world?
Kit Poulson was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk
in 1967. He studied at Edinburgh University (history) 1986-90 and
Middlesex University (fine art) 1996-99. Though rooted in painting his
practice embraces site specific installation, text, sound and live work.
Exhibitions and projects include 'The Exhibitionists Festival' (with Alex
Baker) ICA London 1998, 'I am Empty, I am Full' (solo show) Christchurch
Mansion Ipswich 2005, 'Stick, Stamp, Fly' Gasworks London (group show)
2007 and 'Black Cube/ White Horse' (with Alex Baker) Hartnett Gallery
Rochester USA 2008. He has been the 'Wheatley Fellow' artist-in-residence
at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design since 2007.