MYRIAD

22nd February to 15th March, 2025
PV Friday 21st February, 6-9pm, all welcome

Myriad brings together a group of painters who share Pierre Bonnard’s energised colour sensibility within contemporary practice. Acknowledging his work as a constant source of inspiration, Peter Doig describes how “the paintings had a kind of openness, a kind of unfinished aspect to them”. It is an informed level of provisionality, a sense of ambiguity and engagement with the entire surface, involving colour and gesture, that connects the paintings in this exhibition. 

“An openness that allows viewers to enter the work and fill it in for themselves, not in an easy way, but in a way that actually ends up really involving the viewer. He creates the impression of not covering space, but of finding space. It is amazing that he could translate that so well into colour. He somehow manages to create a space between what he is looking at and thinking about, because a lot of his work – especially when he is painting his wife – is thinking back. Somehow he is painting the space that is behind the eyes.” (Doig, cited in Page, 2006)

Elvira Bernard @elvira_bernardd 
Betsy Bradley @betsy_bradley
Michael Clarence @michaeljohnclarence
Jenny Eden @jennyrutheden
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown @pippa.elkadhi.brown
Sebastián Espejo @sebaespejov
Lyndsey Gilmour @lyndsey_gilmour
Sarah Grant @sfgrant
Rhiannon Inman-Simpson @rhiannon.inmansimpson
Alice Neave @aliceneave_art
Matilda Wainwright @matildawainwrightpainter
Amy Winstanley @amywinstanley

Curated by Sarah Grant @sfgrant and Matilda Wainwright @matildawainwrightpainter 
Image: Amy Winstanley, ‘Reading’, oil on canvas, 36 x 31cm @amywinstanley
Quote: Doig in interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist in Suzanne Page’s ‘Bonnard; The Work of Art: Suspending Time’, 2006

Exhibition text to follow at PV, kindly written by David Auborn @davidauborn

Oceans Apart, 24-26 King Street, Salford, M3 7DG

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