Basil Beattie: Drawing on the Interior II

Basil Beattie: Drawing on the Interior IITurps Gallery, The Chaplin Centre, Taplow House, Thurlow Street, London, SE17 2DG24jan(jan 24)12:23 pm20feb(feb 20)12:23 pm

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Drawing on the Interior II celebrates the work of Basil Beattie RA in a solo exhibition of recent drawings and paintings, hung in counterpoint to three large canvases from his renowned Janus series (2009).

Occupying two galleries in the Turps headquarters at Taplow House, Drawing on the Interior II recalls a seminal installation Beattie conceived for the Eagle Gallery in 1991 that brought together paintings with almost 400 drawings which bore the motifs of ladders, steps, thresholds, stacked blocks and towers. In a new essay for the current show, the writer Nick de Ville describes these now signature motifs as ‘the trial components of a language of built-space, a built-space discovered in the rudiments of signification’. Over the last thirty years Beattie has drawn upon this vast image-bank to express ideas about perception, memory and consciousness within his wider work.

curated by the Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts

Thursday–Saturday, 12–6pm

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