Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.
words, words, words...
07 July - 30 July, 2016
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Introduction by Charles Nodrum
IntroductionThis exhibition was pencilled in years ago but repeatedly delayed. To do justice to the subject dozens of artists had to be added, but as the list lengthened, the exhibition receded ever further into the future. So what we have now might be called "a show in progress" with some ground covered ... Read More
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Exhibition Essay by Alex Selenitsch
Exhibition Essay by Alex SelenitschPre-modern painters had a tool-box of iconic objects to use: instruments, flowers, animals, clothes, jewels and so on. All had associated meanings which would be recognised by viewers, or at the very least, easily explained. These off-the-shelf signs and symbols, these ‘clouds of knowing’, functioned like alanguage, but faded in the 19th ... Read More