RICHARD GORMAN

The circle, often a symbol of perfection and symmetry in nature, is joyfully interrupted by this process: porous forms overlap, drip, and bleed into one another, suggesting a kind of mutability. Japan includes two All Wall installations, modular assemblages of circular forms first shown at The MAC, Belfast and presented here in an adapted restaging, these works present off-kilter repetitions of circular forms in asymmetric arrangements, devised with Gorman’s intuitive approach to create rhythm, movement and flow.

A gifted colourist, Richard Gorman is best known for his paintings and works on paper exploring the dynamic interplay between geometric forms. His works on paper offer a delicate counterpoint to his more robust oils on canvas, but both strands of Gorman’s practice draw their power from the compositional tension between boldly simplified blocks of colour.

Gorman’s work has been exhibited at The Drawing Centre, New York; Berkeley Art Museum, California; Barbican Centre, London; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Mitaka City Gallery of Art and Ashikaga City Museum of Art in Japan; The MAC, Belfast; the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery of Art; and Castletown House, Co Kildare, Ireland. Recent solo exhibitions include Living through Paint(ing), The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2023), travelling to Villa Croce & Museum Chiossone, Genoa (2024); and Emotional Geometry, Chigasaki Museum, Japan (2019). Gorman’s work is in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Hugh Lane Gallery; National Gallery of Ireland; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, all Ireland; Koriyama City Museum of Art; Centre of Contemporary Graphic Art, Fukushima, both Japan; Josef and Anni Albers Foundation; New York Public Library, both USA.