Natalie Dower’s second solo exhibition with the Eagle Gallery draws from a career
of over 40 years, and presents recent paintings hung in counterpoint to selected
historic works.
Dower’s approach to working within systems of constructivism and geometric
art has always been individual. A friend and contemporary of painters including
Malcolm Hughes and Jean Spencer, Dower’s work is defined by its strong colour sense
and an experimental use of materials including Perspex, Avonite and nylon. Her methods
extend a purely ‘systematic’ approach -
The exhibition
casts a retrospective eye back to the 1980s with a selection of intricate reliefs
that have not been shown since exhibitions in the ’90s at the Curwen Gallery, hung
alongside a series of ‘hybrid’ images, and canvases from the past two years.
A catalogue
with text by Laurence Noga was published for the exhibition.
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