Get lost in a ‘pleasure garden’ of artwork by Anne Ryan
Earthly Delites is at the gallery from Saturday, January 18, to March 29.
A spokesperson said: “Ryan is creating a new installation occupying the entirety of Hasting Contemporary’s main ground floor gallery space. Taking inspiration from Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden Of Earthly Delights, Ryan has curated a ‘pleasure garden’ of work assembled from throughout her career that will invite visitors to wander around and get lost in her work, subtly insinuating ourselves directly into her paintings.
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Hide Ad“Ryan is renowned for her ‘cutouts’ – highly coloured, constructed paintings made from card, collage, canvas, ceramic and metal that focus on figures engaged in a variety of physical activities – dancing, posing, swimming, frolicking in the woods, even cutting loose in a mosh pit – inspired as much by nightclubs and cinema as by classical figurative painting and sculpture.”
Anne Ryan said: “I love the freedom they give me. Suddenly you’re not tied to the four walls of a canvas. It’s almost like not painting. I say to my students: stop painting and then let’s paint.”
Hastings Contemporary also offers a retrospective of rarely seen work by Edward Burra, Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer (The Age of Turmoil).
Find out more at www.hastingscontemporary.org.
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