THE HOUSE THAT PAINTING BUILT
Ally McGinn
Private View: Thursday 9th January 2019 (6pm - 8pm)
Exhibition runs: Thursday 9th Jan 2019 - Saturday 1st Feb 2020
Artists’ talk : Sunday 19th January 3pm
An exhibition of works exploring the ecosystem of painting. Inviting the audience to explore painting as subject, object, and metaphor the space is filled with paintings that interact with each other and step into the space of the audience. Paintings that earn their label through their materiality, and challenge the audience to explore that definition. Presenting a visual narrative of painterly objects that invites the audience to explore and read a few chapters.
Ally McGinn is a conceptually representational painter and installation artist, working within a narrative that questions perceptions of art and the conditions of painting. Through a systematic unpicking and critique of the modern obsession with consumption and possession, and a formal reconsideration of material and meaning the work brings the audience into conversation with the functional object of painting.
Combining found objects, manipulated semiotics and painterly language to create artworks that aim to question our perceptions of the things we are looking at and the ways we are looking at them. It is a practice represents the process of making, and re-presents that process to the viewer.
Ally McGinn has a studio in Bath, has recently completed her BA and MA at Bath Spa University and is working towards her PhD.
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