IAIN ANDREWS – MYTHOPOEIA
2012-10-01Manchester based painter Andrews has created a series of works, under the collective title of Mythopoeia, in direct response to some of the historic paintings on show at Warrington Art Gallery. The museum’s curator writes‘In putting together this show we set out to facilitate a dialogue between specific works in the Museum’s collection and contemporary painting practice. A non verbal conversation between the past and the present that involves a conscious listening to and re-examining of what has gone before with the hope of arriving at some new understanding of that which has become familiar.’
In collaboration with the writer Joanne Reardon Lloyd, Andrews has found ways of exploring and retelling the original paintings. The narratives of Folk and Faery Tales with their themes of oral greed, synaesthesia and transformation feature heavily in the works, as do the experiences of Andrews’ work as an Art Psychotherapist. There is a limited edition catalogue available, with essays by the painter Graham Crowley and art critic Edward Lucie Smith.
Opposite – The Somnabulistics, 2012
Exhibition runs through to January 12th, 2013
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Museum Street
Cultural Quarter
Warrington
WA1 1JB
