The sound of bees and helicopters |
We all witness |
Solo Exhibition
20 Oct 2010 - 21 Nov 2010
IMAGES OF EXHIBITION WILL BE ONLINE FROM 6 OCTOBER
We all dream, whether in monochrome or searing colour, we all travel other realms during the somnambulistic hours of night. It is strange to think that not so long ago our first collective dreams – those captured in photography, television and cinema – were also black and white.
Michael Peck doesn’t literally paint in black and white, but his harshly reduced palette seems to share the same timelessness as those dream-images of old. He has the strangest ability to make the bleak truly beautiful. A part of this is, of course, purely technical – Peck clearly relishes the gradual and painstaking task of building up layer upon layer of paint, creating a depth that invites the viewer into his mysterious world.
Peck is, first and foremost, a narrative painter. These paintings could be read as film stills, moments of frozen time from a far larger saga. Peck’s reductive palette, one of deep grey-brownish hues, seems to force the viewer to add colour, to add movement in a world of utter stillness.
- Words by Ash Crawford
