BASIL BEATTIE

Drawn In Drawn Out
11 September – 16 October 2009

Drawn In Drawn Out is an installation of large-scale drawings by Basil Beattie which feature images from a new body of work entitled the Janus series. The show re-visits one of the Eagle Gallery’s inaugural exhibitions of 1991 Drawing on the Interior, an installation of over 350 of Beattie’s drawings, which were sited through-out the space.

Drawn In Drawn Out is mounted in conjunction with Paintings from the Janus series at the Purdy Hicks Gallery (7 September – 3 October 2009) in which a number of Beattie’s recent larger canvases will be hung with smaller associated paintings. Following Tate Britain’s display in 2007 of Beattie’s paintings from 1990 – 2005 these related exhibitions provide an important opportunity to see new developments in the work of this distinguished British artist.

‘The images in the Janus series are curiously constructed, stacked three, or four, within a framing device that suggests one is looking at them reflected, as in a car mirror, or projected into vast space. The viewer’s gaze is led through a series of ‘portals’ that reinforce the illusory quality of the images. From a distance they read as horizons, train tracks, fields; close to and the surfaces dissolve into a progression of formal, essentially graphic decisions expressed in layers of and incisions into paint. Each vista is defined by a simple division of space – a horizontal line, rendered shadow-like, black on black, by line, or in the threshold of one colour against another.
Beattie sets up an illusion of space, a rhythmic repetition of horizons that are brought short by the intrusion of painted marks, stains or absences of paint’ s from Paintings from the Janus series, catalogue 2009 (ISBN 978-0-9554046-9-6)

Drawn In Drawn Out features a number of individual drawings that explore the stacked imagery of the paintings and includes a monumental work over 4m long, which stretches a single horizon across the length of the gallery’s walls.

For further details please contact the Eagle Gallery on + 44 (0) 207 833 2674

EAST END ACADEMY – PAINTING EDITION – WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
9 July – 30 August 2009

Zara Matthews has been selected as one of thirteen artists exhibiting this year in the East End Academy – Painting Edition at the Whitechapel Gallery. She will be exhibiting a series of paintings – the ‘Stanzina’ series, which were initiated from photographs made in a bedroom of a small hotel in Northern Italy. A sequence of 23 editions variables developed from the project is available through the Eagle Gallery – for further details please see Zara Matthews

GLYNDEBOURNE 75th ANNIVERSARY WOODCUTS

Tom Hammick has made a series of six unique hand-printed limited edition woodcuts to celebrate Glyndebourne Opera’s 75th Anniversary.
Conceived as poster prints for this season’s programme – the images are developed from the librettos and staging of opera’s including Cesare,
Falstaff and The Fairy Queen. The prints will be on show during the Eagle’s Summer’s Lease exhibition
- for further details please see Tom Hammick's Glyndebourne prints