The joy of visiting small art galleries
These spaces are more open to provocative and unapologetic projects. Jarring uncomfortable subjects that send the viewer cowering and unsettled.
In the hands, and mind, of the right owner these spaces have the potential to bring poignant and intriguing new artworks to our towns without fear of upsetting sponsors and ultimately funding withdrawal.
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Hide AdIn the coming month the blackShed gallery in Robertsbridge will be hosting Robert Sample’s collection of despairing figurative oils. Both dark and violently brilliant, they portray an unashamed loss of hope and disquieting perversions, rendered in fleshy hairy bodies.
Not for the faint hearted but certainly something that needs to be seen - ideas and impressions of human experience on this earth, it’s not always pretty and fanciful but the reality is that it lives amongst us and Sample does a grand job of bringing it into our present consciousness.