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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240309T100000
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/editions-ltd-there-seemed-a-stra
 ngeness/
SUMMARY:Editions Ltd: Editions Ltd: There Seemed a Strangeness...
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition of contemporary landscape painting by Paul Mellor
  and John Elcock at Editions Gallery.\n\nPaul Mellor’s paintings explore
  history\, loss\, and mortality as he seeks to question the idea of both p
 rivate and collective memories\, their illusion and ambiguity. Taking his 
 personal memories – of places (real or imagined) - as a starting point. 
 He uses source materials from the internet\, film stills\, postcards and h
 is old photographs to affect a distance from the subject so the final pain
 ting is viewed atmospherically rather than descriptively.\n\nThe paintings
  often feature distant horizons\, quiet spaces and empty landscapes as a p
 lace where time\, geology and older civilizations are layered into a paint
 erly chronotope\, in the process undergoing multiple changes in colour\, p
 erspective\, and composition. The finished works are removed from their po
 int of origin\, creating a psychological space\, more representative of a 
 state of mind than any specific\, real-life place.\n\nJohn Elcock is a vis
 ual artist based in Liverpool with a multidisciplinary practice centred on
  painting and conceptual sculpture. His work has been exhibited nationally
  with paintings recently featuring in the ING Discerning Eye and Wales Con
 temporary.\n\n'There seemed a strangeness..' references the eponymous poem
  of Thomas Hardy in which 'the land's lean face' is the setting for an unc
 anny interplay between the poet and some elusive- other. Mellor and Elcock
 's landscape paintings for this exhibition at Editions feature places each
  with their own genius loci as a starting point for a similar exploration 
 of liminality.\n\nFrom Yorkshire\, Scotland\, Wales to the Wirral\, the ar
 tists have gathered a series of enigmatic yet strangely beautiful painting
 s that shed new light both on the familiar and the unknown. The works are 
 accompanied by a selection of found objects\, photographs and other epheme
 ra\, specially chosen by the artists to provide a glimpse of respective jo
 urneys towards their practical realisation in the studio.
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
LOCATION:Editions Ltd\, 16 Cook Street\, Liverpool\, Liverpool\, United Kin
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