Curated by OHSH Projects, RUNES explores the emergence of human markmaking through abstract art, it considers visual language as an unbroken thread linking contemporary artists to ancient traditions of creating symbols. The exhibition brings together a group of intergenerational artists.
ARTISTS: Bijanka Bacic, Basil Beattie RA, Magda Blasinska, Alice Browne, Jo Dennis, Howard Dyke, Gus Farnes, Guy Haddon Grant, John Hoyland RA, Albert Irvin RA, Harry Kincade, Arthur Lanyon, Paul Moriarty, Pia Ortuño, Jonathan Michael Ray, Kes Richardson.
The exhibition will place pioneering post-war abstractionists including Basil Beattie RA and work from the estates of John Hoyland RA and Albert Irvin RA, alongside leading contemporary painters, and sculptors whose practices span painting, installation, assemblage and material experimentation. Across the exhibition, artists will investigate gesture, geometry, ritual mark, surface and symbol as carriers of memory, perception and belief. Some will draw from archaeology, mythology and landscape; whilst others will work through colour, structure; others still will build visual languages from found materials, repetition or intuitive drawing.
Presented within one of London’s largest single exhibition spaces, the 2,770 square-foot gallery will allow each practice to unfold at scale while remaining in dialogue with the others, creating a shared field of signs that moves across generations and artistic lineages.
SATURDAY 14 MARCH, 3.00-4.30PM: PANEL DISCUSSION
Free
Thursday-Sunday, 12-5pm
