joseph scissorhands: Winter Show: Cambridge Contemporary Art

Sunday 8 November 2020

Winter Show: Cambridge Contemporary Art

Felicity

It's that time in the calendar again when certain galleries are staging their end of year Christmas and Winter shows. I was delighted to have been invited to submit work to the Winter Show currently at Cambridge Contemporary Art which opened last weekend. Unfortunately a twist of fate has seen 'the science' prove that cases of the COVID virus have risen of late. As a result Cambridge Contemporary Art were forced to close their doors to the public with galleries being designated as 'non-essential'. They will be closed until the lifting of lockdown 2.0 (hopefully in early December). Despite the circumstances I have a variety of newly created pieces making their debut at the Winter Show. The larger of the pieces (measuring 50cm x 50cm, supplied in white, ash wooden box frames), are silver-leafed, (gold-leaf options also available), and are part of new developments in my work in which I use the syntax of art and optical activity to prompt a psychological read. Circles of spots have been incorporated to represent heightened states of transcendence, bliss, or perhaps glimpses into other consciousnesses as suggested by the individual titles of the works. Regular readers of the blog will have already been introduced to Rêve, Rapture and Ecstacy, and the inspiration behind their creation in earlier posts. With the new pieces depicted here - Euphoria and Felicity, I wanted to continue the use of the circular dot matrix to represent states of nirvana, but in these pieces I have begun to disrupt the matrix, creating a rift, in which the butterflies continue to explore a sense of transcendence in both the spaces in among the spot matrix and that within the picture frame.

Euphoria

Rêve

As well as the larger pieces above, there are also smaller pieces (measuring 23cm x 23cm framed) of mine available in the Winter Show. If you are interested in purchasing any of the work featured you can reserve, order, or commission pieces online through the lovely people at Cambridge Contemporary Art, and have it safely delivered to you in the same way the gallery did during the original spring/summer lockdown. Gallery contact details can be seen below. Once again, stay safe, stay well, and let's defeat this virus!