Footnote:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Slow painting' held at Leeds Art Gallery, 25 October 2019-12 January 2020; The Levinsky Gallery, The Arts Institute, Plymouth, 24 January to 29 March 2020; The Edge, University of Bath, and the Bath School of Art and Design, 10 April to 6 June 2020; Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, and Thurso Gallery, 25 July to 3 October 2020
Curator: Martin Herbert; Exhibition organiser: Gillian Fox
Description:
This publication presents the works of 19 contemporary painters that share a common stance now identified as 'Slow Painting', either in its creation, its apprehension by the viewer and/or its relationship to art history. Moving from representation to abstraction, these artists insist on the phenomenological experience, creating works that reveal themselves slowly, as a riposte to the contemporary tendency towards an art that is 'fast', quickly made and then consumed