Epoch: New Paintings by Christopher Campbell

Christopher Campbell

20.Apr.07 - 03.Jun.07
Thu-Sat 12 - 6 pm Sunday 10 - 2 pm

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StART SPACE is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by British artist Christopher Campbell. Entitled Epoch and consisting of about 40 paintings Christopher explores further the feeling of a brooding malevolence that has always been present in his work. In Epoch a sense of disquiet and alienation is created, with the placing of animal life in landscapes both rural and urban. These are not like the paintings made in the 18th and 19th Centuries to record the cattle and livestock belonging to rich farmers and landowners, nor are they the rather neurotic looking horses depicted by George Stubbs. These paintings are concerned with menace and threat.

The usual boundaries that define the territories of humans and animals have been disturbed and unbalanced. The animals now have the upper hand.

What are the stories that inform these paintings?

There is a collection of pre-existing stories that I feel the work does have reference to, made, intentionally or not