For our April Spin event we will visit and discuss the exhibition Kevin Harman: No Man’s Land at the Ingleby Gallery, where we will be joined by the visual arts specialist and consultant Wendy Law, who has worked closely with Kevin on various projects. This will be the last chance to visit Ingleby in their current location, as the Gallery will be moving to a new site in the near future.
Some of you will remember visiting Kevin’s studio in October 2014 to discuss the installations and performances he was working on at the time. No Man’s Land presents his most recent work: a series of wall-hanging, abstract ‘glassworks’ produced over the last two years. These pieces are made by pouring paint into double-glazing units, resulting in layered and dripped effects that are as much the result of chance as of the artist’s intention. These painting/objects challenge the notion that the painting offers a ‘window on the world’. They also echo the free use of paint by earlier generations of artists from the atmospheric watercolours of J.M.W. Turner to the surrealist paint techniques used by Max Ernst and the bold abstract expressionist gestures of Jackson Pollock. Kevin Harman’s work offers a rich stimulus for discussion.
