'DAY SHIFT'
5 Aug 2023
to
13 Aug 2023
The show runs from 5th August — 13th August 2023
PV is Saturday 5th August from 1—6pm (all welcome)
and is then open on Sunday 6th August from 11—4pm, other days by appointment
NEILL KIDGELL
On view in the exhibition is a body of new paintings that stem from things seen in passing during daily journeys through the city, suburbs and industrial areas of South East London. In the paintings fragments of this environment, such as buildings or the structures and objects found scattered around construction sites, the River Thames and pockets of wasteland, get conflated and synthesised with a formal vocabulary that evolves through drawing as well as editing and re-working on the surface. In this way each work presents its own internal logic, but at the same time perceptions from the outside world act as catalysts or filter in through the process of making, meaning the works operate in varying degrees between abstraction and representation.
Neill Kidgell (b. 1981, Ipswich, UK) lives and works in London. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools (PG Dip Fine Art, 2013–16), Chelsea College of Art and Design (BA Hons Fine Art, 2000–03) and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (Foundation, 1999–2000). Recent exhibitions include: ‘Wayfarer’ at Cedric Bardawil, London (2023); ‘A Generous Space 2’ at The New Art Gallery Walsall (2022); ‘Your Foot in My Face’ at Kingsgate Project Space, London (2021) and ‘New Songs for Old Rituals’ at Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London (2021). He has taught at numerous art schools as a lecturer and visiting artist, including City & Guilds of London Art School, Kingston School of Art, Royal Academy Schools and Goldsmiths.