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Mark Tanner Award 2003 Giles Kent 19 September - 25 October 2003
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Giles Kent creates in situ installations that enhance and elaborate on the natural properties of wood, exploring the premis that the visual qualities of nature lie in its simplicity and repetition. Kent's work compliments the natural landscape by responding to lines and shapes found around each particular site, as he has, until recently, worked mainly to commission for outdoor sculptures in the UK, Sweden and Canada
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For this exhibition, using large sections of 'found' wood, Kent's concern is to work with the natural growth and movement inherent in the material and is influenced by the shapes suggested by the individual blocks. Kent's new sculptures tend towards an indulgence in purity of form for forms sake; yet it is a purity informed by the personality of the material and his experience of the natural landscape, paradoxically presented within the very urban gallery space of Standpoint, thereby separated from the multiple references that the natural landscape presents. |
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Mark Tanner was a sculptor who trained at St. Martin's College of Art and had been associated with Standpoint since its inception. He worked mainly in steel, and was one of the first artists to show in Standpoint Gallery. He died in 1998 after a long illness. The Mark Tanner Award was established in 2001, on the initiative of a private charitable trust, to keep alive the passion and enthusiasm he had for the making of art.
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The Standpoint Studios and Gallery is a registered charity, providing low cost studio, workshop and exhibition space, showing a broad range of work, concentrating on presenting artists at an early stage of their career. Standpoint has the following objectives: To support artists and craftspeople by providing gallery and workshop facilities within which they can exhibit and develop their work. To promote the visual arts by developing public appreciation and access to the arts. To involve the community, including schools and colleges, in arts education by providing talks, events and practical workshops The gallery presents shows on a 4-6 week rotation, and accepts proposals for shows from individual artists, independant curators and organisations. For information as to criteria and procedure, please contact:
Rebecca Finney Gallery Curator Standpoint Gallery 45 Coronet St London N1 6HD tel/fax 0207 739 4921 |
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