Artist statement
…….Over time, as these different manners of applying paint fused together at the centre of the canvas, a painted mass took up residence, flipping between materiality and the non-thing, not securely a depiction but not nothing either: both, really, at once. And, as a reflection of the ontological slipperiness of the painted object and the painting-as-object, this manages to be analogous for something else that’s equally unstable within the physical-conceptual structure of this art. For want of a better word we might call this ‘content’ (though this is to simplify things wildly), and it brings us back to the abject and to the famously big psychological knot of object relations as they pertain to the child and the mother. Since this, scooping up Kristeva and Freud at the very least, was a major part of GL Brierley’s avowed impetus for these paintings………
Martin Herbert © Courtesy of Carslaw St* Lukes Gallery.
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 New Paintings, Carslaw St* Lukes Gallery, London
- 2010 MATERSATZ, Madder 139, London.
- 2010 Solo presentation, VOLTA NY, Madder 139, New York
- 2008 RECENT PAINTINGS, Natalia Goldin Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2005 'THE NAUGHTY PUPPIES', Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Group exhibitions
- 2011 A PIECE OF PAPER, Madder 139, London
- 2011 4 Person Show, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
- 2011 FOUR in PLAY, Madder 139, London
- 2011 VOLTA 8, Madder 139, Art Basel, Switzerland
- 2010 JOHN MOORES 2010, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- 2010 BLACK, Madder 139, London
- 2009 BORDERLAND, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
- 2008 SALON '08, Vine Space, Vyner St. London
- 2008 ARTFUTURES 2008, Bloomberg Space, London
- 2007 THE TEARDROP EXPLODES, Stadtgalerie, Schwaz, Austria
- 2007 LAST OF THE URGENTS, Colony Project Space, Birmingham, UK
- 2006 CELESTE ART PRIZE, Old Truman Brewery, London
- 2005 'LONDON NOW', The Art's Centre, St. Petersburg, Florida. USA
- 2004 JOHN MOORES 23, Walker Gallery, Liverpool, England.
Curated projects
- 2012 Everywhere & Nowhere, The Reydan Weiss Collection, Villa Jauss, Germany
- 2012 Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being, The Crypt, 1 Marylebone Rd, London
- 2012 27 Artists-27 Countries, museum Tongerlohuys, Netherlands
- 2011 MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE, La Maison Rouge, Paris
- 2011 RESTLESS NATURE, Newlyn Gallery, Penzance, UK
- 2008 "WHISPERS OF IMMORTALITY", Curated by Joakim Borda, Natalia Goldin Gallery, Sweden
- 2008 LIGHT DIVIDED , Curated by Ben Austin, Louise T BlouinFoundation, London
- 2007 FOREIGN BODY(ies), Curated by Gerard Hemsworth, White Box, New York
- 2006 DEFINING THE CONTEMPORARY, Curated by Andrea Tarsia, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
- 2004 'EAST END ACADEMY', Curated by Niru Ratnam, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Other
- 2007 Collection of, Olbricht Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany.
- 2007 Collection of, Robin Woodhead, CEO Sotheby's International, London
- 2007 Collection of, Murderme Collection, Damien Hirst, UK
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