OLIVER PERKINS

Colour abounds. With Perkins’ wall paintings, large, dense monochromatic masses are framed in architecture. Within a selection of insert paintings, treated canvas surfaces involve excerpts of larger fields, so that vari-coloured planes are present simultaneously. Pieces of potency are brought together in order to create interplay of gesture, technique, pattern and hue.

Things come together, a relationship forms and develops between: one painting and another, projection and recession, absence and presence... between a specific built environment and selected artworks.

Sometimes there is a reticence, to keep something in reserve is to hold something back, whether it be canvas that has been cut away, the paint brush lifted up, a treated surface left unpainted or a painted block which scrolls, unfurls itself and stops.

This is Oliver Perkins’ second solo exhibition with Michael Lett gallery.