Join Cupola in Hillsborough as they host a solo exhibition by Sheffield-based artist Sean Williams.
Sean is both an award winning artist and a curator who regularly organises exhibitions of paintings, with a view to highlighting the still relevant and enduring power of paint in the contemporary art world.
“Over the last few years I have produced a collection of paintings based on a walk around a fictional English town. The walk takes place on the edges of the town, highlighting the places that, while containing both urban and rural elements, are neither quite one thing nor the other. There are signs of life, of building work and farm animals, but no people. It includes views of parks, those essential oases of relative calm within the bustling conurbation, and farms – buildings which mark where the town ends and the countryside begins. There are also views of the curiously manufactured, artificial terrain of golf courses. The walk occurs across the year, encompassing all weathers.
My paintings are views of the fringes of suburbia, places that feel as though they are familiar, but then escape our conditioned response. I aim to place the viewer as ‘still points of a turning world’ – alone, for a while, then possibly watched as they look on. The scene switches between mundane – what is evident and what impacts on our environment, and how we barely see it -and suggesting something may be about to happen. I use a Pointillist-type technique in an attempt to include a wide array of colours in my paintings and to cause them to shimmer slightly.”
– Sean
Cupola is exhibiting around 30 paintings varying in size from 20 x 28 cm up to 60 x 90 cm. Works are for sale.
Opening evening:
9 February, 7:30–9:30pm – hospitality provided.
Exhibition open Monday–Saturday 10am–6pm.
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