The Civic, Hanson Street, Barnsley, S70 2HZ
David Batchelor, Jacob Dahlgren, Ian Davenport, Jennifer Douglas, Dale Holmes, Gary Hume, David Leapman, Paul Merrick, Julie Newton, Yinka Shonibare, DJ Simpson and Richard Woods
Surface brings together a selection of paintings by established artists from the Arts Council collection which investigate the themes of painting, materials, surface and abstraction in order to present a recent history of these developments in art.
Recent large-scale survey exhibitions have demonstrated a renewed interest in artworks’ materiality and surfaces, and a resurgent interest in abstract painting. Exhibitions such as the British Art Show 7: In the days of the Comet and The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from 1960 to Now presented works that complicate the distinctions between painting and sculpture and raised challenging questions about the processes and techniques of contemporary art production.
Jointly curated by the Gallery@ The Civic and British painter and PhD student at the University of Sheffield, Dale Holmes, Surface brings together a selection of paintings by established artists from the Arts Council collection – as well as emerging and mid-career local artists – which investigate the themes of painting, materials, surface and abstraction in order to present a recent history of these developments in art, and to help create new audiences for contemporary painting.
