Paper Matters 2017
Bridget Macdonald
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Simon Lewty
Vigilant in Light and Air
1989
acrylic and mixed media on tissue
92.8 x 106.7 cm
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Simon Lewty
Cantique des Cantiques
2016
acrylic on tissue
35.8 x 47 cm
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Simon Morley
Age of Extremes
2010
acrylic on book pages
116 x 105 cm
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Simon Morley
Cézanne (1948)
2012
acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 cm
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Simon Morley
Piero della
Francesca (1960)
2012
acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 cm
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Jack Milroy
Pieces of Eight (by Six)
2016
cut book page construction
130 x 105 x 15 cm
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Christopher Cook
Transit Query
2013
graphite on paper
50 x 36 cm
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Christopher Cook
Reaper with Bowl of Ink
2016
graphite on paper
71 x 100 cm
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Bridget Macdonald
Octavius
2017
charcoal on paper
56 x 76 cm
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Bridget Macdonald
The Prague Hare
2015
charcoal/graphite on paper
81 x 122 cm
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Will Maclean (with John Burnside)
Stormbreeder
from A Catechism of the Laws of Storms
2014
screenprint, edition of 40, 25 x 55 cm
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Paper Matters
11 May – 2 June 2017
Art First in residence at Eagle Gallery
159 Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 3AL
Exhibiting Artists
Christopher Cook / Simon Lewty / Bridget Macdonald / Will Maclean / Jack Milroy / Simon Morley
The primacy of drawing is back, photography has won its position as a fine art, museum departments and specific drawing centres are now established worldwide. The artists presented here all use paper as a central part of their practice.
Simon Lewty has worked exclusively with paper all his life, exploring its multiple surface and palimpsest potential to create both archaic and post-modern calligraphic imagery.
Christopher Cook’s ‘graphites’ are a mysterious mixture of graphite and oil, deployed in evocative abstractions with strong landscape or theatrical references.
Bridget Macdonald exhibited her large, breathtaking charcoal drawings before she considered showing her paintings, and paper remains the dominant element of her work, represented in many English museum collections.
Literature is a significant source for her, as it is for Simon Morley, a strict modernist known for his paintings of book covers and his colour-blocks painted over the texts of penguin book pages or poems, allowing them and titles to evoke the content.
Jack Milroy uses books themselves, releasing their illustrated contents with a scalpel, to move weightlessly through the pages.
For his collaboration with the poet John Burnside, Will Maclean expanded the image-to-poem arrangement of the book, A Catechism of the Laws of Storms, into an edition of striking prints, included in the exhibition.
