Aleph Contemporary for AccessArt
19 NOVEMBER 2021 - 17 DECEMBER 2021Notes
The haematite from the now disused Florence Mine in Cumbria has a rich deep red pigment. The name of the mineral is derived from the Greek for blood - ‘haema’. It can be used as a drawing medium by itself or be mixed with other ingredients to make egg tempera or acrylic paint, or as a glaze for ceramics.
I’m trying to make the viewer look longer and harder, to have a one-on-one relationship with landscape painting, to make them curious and find some joy. The places depicted in my work are partly an invention, full of contrasts and spontaneity. They combine memories and motifs of places I have lived or longingly imagined. They are an idea of a place and the melancholy of longing and wanting to belong. An unfashionable romanticism grounded in the act of painting.
Gordon Dalton was born in Middlesbrough, 1970. He lives in Saltburn by the Sea, UK.He is represented by Aleph Contemporary and a member of the Contemporary British Painting group. Select solo exhibitionsAuxiliary Warehouse, Middlesbrough; Trade Gallery, Nottingham; Bay Art, Cardiff; Last Gallery, Llangadog; Bank Gallery, Los Angeles; Keith Talent, London; Marksman Gallery, Reading; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester and Moot Gallery, Nottingham (with S Mark Gubb).
Select group shows
Royal Academy, London; Matthew Burrows Selects, Unit 1 Gallery, London; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance; Contemporary British Painting Prize, Riverside Gallery, Richmond; Beep Wales Painting Prize, Swansea; Del Infinito Art Gallery, Buenos Aires; Terrace Gallery, London; Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough; National Eisteddfod of Wales, Abergavenny; Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix; Transition, London; Syson, Nottingham; Bank Art, Los Angeles; Galerie Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York; Moravian Museum, Brno
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