[ezcol_1half]Alex Lowery & Graeme Williams:
Painting West Bay, Photographing South Africa
7 – 29 June 2019
curated by Art First
Silent architectural exteriors, empty of human form but fully suggestive of human occupancy is Alex Lowery and Graeme Williams’s subject matter. The two artists work in quite different contexts and mediums yet produce images that share deep affinities – a connection which is revealed in the Eagle Gallery’s forthcoming exhibition, curated by Art First.
Dorset’s West Bay and the island of Portland have been leitmotifs in Alex Lowery’s paintings for over two decades. The bright marine light that pervades his work suggests the presence of the sea, while describing the man-made forms that exist at the sea’s edge: jetties, warehouses, piers and seafront homes. Lowery’s reductive, modernist approach creates a distinctive meditative beauty that is tinged with poetic melancholy.
Between 1989 and 1994, Graeme Williams covered South Africa’s eventful transition to democracy for Reuters and other international news organizations. He has since recorded, in an extensive series of photographic essays, the rapidly changing landscape of his homeland following the end of Apartheid. Painting Over the Present and Scratching the Surface are the titles of essays from which the photographs in Casting Light have been selected, in which Williams focuses on homes and dwellings in environments occupied by some of South Africa’s poorest people.
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GRAEME WILLIAMS Malmesbury, 2011, photograph, 47 x 61cm
ALEX LOWERY Portland 143, 2019, oil on canvas 45 x 80cm
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