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Richard Forster

RICHARD FORSTER

OST..! Ingleby 14 September–2 November 2024 Edinburgh
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Richard Forster is known for his meticulous, photo-realistic pencil drawings, examples of which are in distinguished collections worldwide including TATE London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

In recent years Forster’s subject matter this has focussed on a personal triangulation that takes in his own upbringing on a housing estate in Teesside in early 80s, the suburban American housing phenomenon epitomised by Levittown in the immediate post war years, and the phenomenon of Ostalgie prompted by the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989. Thirty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is this last subject that comes to the fore in a new body of work.

OST..! is a deep exploration of place and otherness which sees Forster returning to working in sculpture as well as on paper.

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Installation view of Richard Forster’s solo exhibition, OST..!, 2024, Ingleby, Edinburgh. Photograph: John McKenzie.
Installation view of Richard Forster’s solo exhibition, OST..!, 2024, Ingleby, Edinburgh. Photograph: John McKenzie.
Installation view of Richard Forster’s solo exhibition, OST..!, 2024, Ingleby, Edinburgh. Photograph: John McKenzie.
Installation view of Richard Forster’s solo exhibition, OST..!, 2024, Ingleby, Edinburgh. Photograph: John McKenzie.
Installation view of Richard Forster’s solo exhibition, OST..!, 2024, Ingleby, Edinburgh. Photograph: John McKenzie.
About the Artist

A key starting point for Richard Forster’s practice is a documentary approach to time, process and sense of place. In his most recent exhibitions, he has constructed sequences of works that act as a calendar of activity, and a form of storytelling that circumnavigates the gallery architecture. Forster has nurtured his drawing from formative years he describes as an ‘anxious teenager alienated in an English suburban bedroom’. While his intimate and compulsive attention to detail could be categorised and mistaken for photo-realism, Forster prefers to use more ambiguous categories such as the ‘nearly-photo-realistic’ or the ‘photocopy-realistic’, in an attempt to extend the reading of the work towards the meanings inherent to the medium of drawing, and the particulr subject-matter of his choosing.

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About the Gallery

Founded in 1998, Ingleby maintains an ambitious program of exhibitions and off-site projects by established and emerging artists. Over the past 14 years, it has secured a reputation as one of the country’s leading private galleries, renowned for the quality of its exhibitions and publications. The gallery represents artists of international standing, whilst also introducing and supporting artists at earlier stages in their career. We are pleased to advise public, private and corporate clients about buying art, and in starting, building and maintaining collections.

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Ingleby contemporary art gallery in Edinburgh United Kingdom
Ingleby
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