Basil Beattie: Another Place: Paintings from the 90s

Hales presents Another Place: Paintings from the 90s, Basil Beattie RA’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. A key figure in the development of post-war British abstraction, Beattie (b. 1935, West Hartlepool, UK) is known for his gestural, painterly compositions. Over a career spanning more than sixty years, he has carved out a rigorously process-based practice deeply concerned with the experiential and psychological qualities of painting.

The exhibition takes its title from the monumental painting Another Place, which anchors the show alongside a body of smaller-scale works. Together, they showcase Beattie’s distinctive visual language and mark a pivotal decade of artistic development. From the late 1980s onwards, Beattie began to move away from pure abstraction, introducing simple motifs that became a resource of infinite possibility. He recognised that abstraction and mark-making could more fully express subjective experience when formal elements took on some of the characteristics of recognisable objects.

Free

Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm