NEW NARRATIVES
Lane House Arts Gallery, Bath
December 2014 - February 2015
GINA BROWN
ZSOLT DUDAS
LOUISE HALL
Gina Brown's rich deeply layered oil paintings translate an archive of old photographic material where she seeks the 'unknown' through ambiguous narratives. She collects old photographs and postcards and aims to create covetable paintings that are of the present but haunted by the past. The paintings deconstruct time and place to transcend the photograph and fix upon the melancholy and fleeting transcience of memory. Faces devoid of facial features have stories of their own, mysterious and hidden. Gina gives them new life and new narratives embedded within the paintings.
Hungarian Zsolt Dudas draws from personal experience - something he has seen, read or touched to create an in-between space, overlap or cross-over; a profound experimental investigation to understand the nature of being and in the same time being in the body. He uses drawing and sculpture to support his painting to measure the body and explore its boundaries. His work is by turns dark, beautiful, melancholy, exquisite, tender and haunting - but always powerful.
New gallery ceramicist, Louise Hall, likes to engage physically with the raw material, pursuing a careful balance between fragility and bold strength, while the firing process enables the clay to develop a more undulating, independent sense of self. She creates wild but delicate hand-built ceramics using glazed and un-glazed porcelain to construct beaten, distorted forms with soft curves and interrupted contours.
Hungarian Zsolt Dudas draws from personal experience - something he has seen, read or touched to create an in-between space, overlap or cross-over; a profound experimental investigation to understand the nature of being and in the same time being in the body. He uses drawing and sculpture to support his painting to measure the body and explore its boundaries. His work is by turns dark, beautiful, melancholy, exquisite, tender and haunting - but always powerful.
New gallery ceramicist, Louise Hall, likes to engage physically with the raw material, pursuing a careful balance between fragility and bold strength, while the firing process enables the clay to develop a more undulating, independent sense of self. She creates wild but delicate hand-built ceramics using glazed and un-glazed porcelain to construct beaten, distorted forms with soft curves and interrupted contours.
