Looking forward to showing a still life piece at ‘The Shape of Things: Still Life Britain’ – a group exhibition at Pallant House exploring the continuing and fundamental relevance of the genre of still life to British art and art history. It will show how the genre has been employed by leading 20th and 21st century artists to grapple with some of the most profound themes relating to the human condition, and as a vehicle for artistic experimentation with new forms and ideas. Taking us from post-impressionism to abstraction, from pop to conceptual art, it will show artists working with still life to explore themes such as mortality and vulnerability, fertility and fecundity; the uncanny and subconscious; the domestic environment; consumerism and waste; and how modern and contemporary artists have engaged with and reinterpreted traditional art history. Today these themes also extend to gender identity, biodiversity and climate change, and to the legacy of colonialism and empire.
In some ways the exhibition will be a ‘who’s who’ of modern and contemporary British art, with around 60 leading artists including William Nicholson, Walter Sickert, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, David Jones, Claude Cahun, Paul Nash, Lee Miller, Gluck, Meredith Frampton, Patrick Heron, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Lucian Freud, Richard Hamilton, Jann Haworth, Patrick Caulfield, Mona Hatoum, Hurvin Anderson, Mat Collishaw and others.
Gordon Cheung
Still Life with Golden Goblet (after Pieter de Ring, 1640-1660), 2017
Archival inkjet on 380gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper
Paper 103.0 x 88.0 cm / Image 100.0 x 85.0 cm
Edition of 20 + 3 AP
The exhibition opens 10 May through 20 October at Pallant House, 9 N Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ, UK.