Derek Culley at Southport Arts Centre
I haven't been to see Derek's new exhibtion yet but it gets a good review in the North West Enquirer (a new weekly paper I'm becoming quite fond of).
Well its more of a biography really, doesn't say a lot about the work on show. Have to go and see for ourselves.
At Southport Arts Centre until September 2nd 2006.
DUBLIN-born painter Derek Culley surely empathises with the maxim of “the artist suffering for the sake of the muse”. He’s spent all his creative life embracing resolute principles rather than coining the “moolah”, like others more inclined to genuflect before Mammon, such as, say, Damian Hirst.
He will flinch at this revelation, but once, when curator of exhibitions at the Windsor Arts Centre back in the 1980s, Culley – who had departed his native land to make a mark on the British and international arts scene – was one of the first to give struggling student Hirst the chance to show off his conceptions, way before his Formaldehyde Period.
But Culley doesn’t consider this a worthy tidbit for print, or the fact he was also generous over gallery space to artists like Neil Ferguson, Mel Gordan, Mary P O’Connor and Max Blond.
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