Grant Foster: Human Made
Sat 27 Apr 2024 - Sat 22 Jun 2024
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Grant Foster: Human Made
Human Made is a solo exhibition by London-based artist Grant Foster, who works across painting, sculpture, collage and text.
In a gallery-wide installation that suggests the permeability between memory and dream, the artist explores contemporary social issues including gender, sexuality, wealth redistribution, and the artist’s own working-class, Trinidadian and British, dual-heritage background.
The exhibition presents two series of free-standing, double-sided paintings which run through both gallery spaces. Each work is an interconnected component within a wider meta-narrative, employing a conventional painted surface while revealing a notational and diaristic reverse. The exposed backs of the canvases embed elements of text, sculpture, and film, collaged across their hand-made, repurposed timber stretchers, serving to expand the paintings’ interpretive possibilities.
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY
Artist’s Talk: Now available to listen to online
On Saturday 18th May Grant Foster was joined in conversation by Phoenix Gallery curator Matt Burrows and Dr Chantal Powell, a South-West based artist, educator and curator, whose work is informed by a PhD in psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory. The wide-ranging discussion touched on the importance and symbolism of dreams, the many dualities to be found in Grant’s practice, slippage between the past, present and future, alternative thought structures and the process of bringing the exhibition together in the gallery. Click above to listen to the talk.
Limited edition print: Tulips, Boots and Axe, 2024 | £30 (+p&p)
A new affordable giclee print, is available to accompany the exhibition in a limited edition of 100 unsigned copies.
Tulips, Boots and Axe is made from an original painting by Grant Foster and is printed with archival ink on 290gsm Hahnemühle Hemp fibre paper.
Limited edition artist’s book: A Year of Kindness | £20 (+p&p)
An artist’s book is also available in a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies.
A Year of Kindness is an artist’s book conceived in reference to Max Ernst’s collaged picture book “A Week of Kindness”. It is compiled from excerpts, gathered over the course of a year, from the artist’s dream journals and waking diaries to alternate, page by page, between dream and a shared waking reality.
VENUE: PHOENIX GALLERY
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