AN APPETITE FOR RISK

Exhibition selected and curated by Amanda Geitner

The Cut | Halesworth | Suffolk | IP19 8BY | UK

OPEN | Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 4pm

Tuesday 4th September - Wednesday 10th October 2018

CURATOR’S TALK |  Saturday 6 October | 2pm | Free

Curated by

Amanda Geitner

This exhibition brings together six artists whose work is distinguished by a willingness to experiment with their materials, playing with substance and form, sometimes risking failure to achieve success. The desire to take risks is a defining feature of creativity. Sometimes these risks are grave, pushing materials and processes to their limits and hoping that the outcome will not end in complete destruction. At other times, these risks are much more playful, signalling a willingness to try something completely new and experiment with it, allowing the work to evolve and arrive at destination that was not foreseen at the start.

Working with paint, paper, canvas, board, gesso, foam, bronze, steel, concrete and clay, this diverse group of artists risk mess, imperfection, breakage, cracking and collapse. Sometimes the risks are discrete and the results immaculate, at other times the experiments remain visible on the work. In them all I saw extraordinary presence and energy – work that is sometimes uneasy in its attraction, but always captivating.

Amanda Geitner

Artists

Susan Gunn | Nessie Stonebridge | Elizabeth Merriman | Lee Granjean | Chris Taylor | Craig Hudson