SHARON HALL
EAGLE GALLERY CABINET ROOM
26 May – 2 July 2021
We are delighted to announce Across Colour – a solo exhibition by the British artist Sharon Hall – as the fourth project in the Eagle Gallery Cabinet Room. The installation combines a number of Hall’s abstract paintings with a recent series of ‘leporello’ book works, which extend her explorations of colour, light and space, across folded paper pages and into three dimensions.
Hall’s work is distinguished by its subtle manipulations of layered transparencies of paint on supports of gesso panel and linen canvas: ‘Held by geometrical armatures, intense colour bands divide surfaces into sections. Their pulsating planes evoke minute, barely perceptible rhythms that nuance the firm and measurable time invoked by the pictorial architectonic.’
(Kamini Vellodi Painting and Time, Playtime catalogue, Arthouse1, 2019)
Whilst working within parameters of a contemporary, formalist language of abstraction, her paintings carry an emotional resonance that refers back to traditions of the quattrocento, revealing how light affects the nuances and poetic qualities of colour.
In 2016 Hall began making folded paper structures that allowed her to experiment with light and shadow, creating optical illusions in relation to the surface of the two dimensional images and the three dimensional space they imply. Using acrylic, watercolour glazes and washes soaked into paper, she threads and weaves enormously sophisticated colour relationships across the zig zag structures.
Sharon Hall trained at the Slade School of Art and was awarded a Rome Award in Painting at the British School at Rome in 1990. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the UK and internationally and her works are held in collections including Artsite, New York; Barclays Plc, London; Heathrow Airport, London; Norton Rose, London; Prudential Collection, New Jersey, USA.
The Eagle Gallery Cabinet Room is open Wednesday – Friday, 11 – 6pm and Saturday 11 – 4pm. There is no need to make an appointment but if you would prefer to, please ring 020 7833 2674.
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