And Then Again

And then again is a group of recent abstract paintings by Sturgis from two concurrent series loosely titled the stacked paintings and the boulder paintings. The stacked paintings are marked by planes of very flat colour and chequered pattern, the planes are often misaligned, vying against each other to be in front. In contrast to this void space of jostling planes the boulder paintings are full of flat geometric shapes arranged in such a way that could have been of their own making, a kind of shake down of natural order. The weight of balance in the boulder shapes yield a tension of suggested movement. Both series are populated with small dots of colour. The dots lend a shared space and scale to the works and have a strong anthropomorphic quality that imbue them with a humour and further sense of movement, a slight tilt and they could simply roll away. Shapes become sentient agents. It is at this meeting place of divergent references from art, contemporary culture, abstraction and design that Sturgis finds new and exciting forms of abstraction.

A publication accompanies the exhibition with contributions from Daniel Sturgis and Pia Gottschaller.

Happy in Your Skin, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 1832 x 1832 mm

Half Ground, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 410 x 309 mm

Boulder Shift, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 510 x 407 mm

Over and Above, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 1832 x 1832 mm

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