The Kingston Turnpike

The exhibition and catalogue continue ideas of relating contemporary painting practice to that of photography, film and video first explored in “Sight Mapping” (output 4).

The Kingston Turnpike consists of a pool of artists, internationally renowned in their field, who express a particular sensibility related to the fluid possibilities in current practice. The exhibition uses the film “Being John Malkovich” as a skewed theme, allowing unpredictable combinations of artists while functioning as a critique of the narrow, over-defined programming of much current curatorial practice.

Sensuality, seduction, skill at handling material and the artist’s will to make something eccentric (perhaps traditional qualities of painting) are emphasised over concept and laborious contextualisation. Strba’s video projections, for example, thus become luminous painterly experiences, Akkerman’s serial self-portraits, by contrast, pieces of conceptual mischief.

Andrew Bick was featured in Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures 2005 at Bloomberg SPACE.

Born 1963 in Coleford, Gloucestershire, Bick lives and works in London and is represented by Hales Gallery, London and Gallery Von Bartha, Basel.

Andrew is Senior Lecturer at Kingston University Department of Fine Art and The University of Gloucestershire, visiting Lecturer Central Saint Martins School of Art MFA.