'Present Tense' at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery

Here are three installation views from the exhibition 'Present Tense' at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery that I am currently participating in, showing contemporary painting and photography from Swindon's permanent collection. The exhibition has just opened.

My painting 'Drift' (2013, 54 x 60in, acrylic on canvas) is hung beside Steven Pippin's Turner Prize nominated 'Walking Naked' (Laundromat Locomotion) series of works. Pippin's sequence of photographs was presented to Swindon by the Art Fund. It consists of 12 circular black and white photographs representing the passage of a person from left to right across the line of vision of a row of 12 cameras - ie photographs from inside a washing machine.

The exhibition runs from 14 January 2015 - 18 April 2015. Please do try to see the show if you can. Lots of good work!

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First exhibition of 2015

Drift. 2013. 54 x 60 in. © Julie Umerle

Getting the New Year off to a fine start! I'll be exhibiting one of my paintings, Drift, in the exhibition 'Present Tense' at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery from 14 January - 18 April 2015. It will be the first time this painting has been displayed in a gallery.

'Present Tense' showcases contemporary painting and photography featuring more than 40 works from the Swindon collection including works by Lisa Milroy, Magnus Quaife, Steven Pippin, Maggi Hambling, Tony Bevan, Eileen Cooper and Julie Umerle among others. The exhibition challenges the idea that contemporary art is elitist or incomprehensible. Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and looking at history and society, the exhibition investigates the way artists continue to react to the world around them and create new realities.

Through painting and photography, the exhibition will examine how everyday life, place, memory and repetition influence contemporary British art.

The exhibition showcases painting and photography produced since 1990s and in the collection of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery.

                                                                                         

                                                                                   

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Bath Road
Old Town Road
Swindon
SN1 4BA

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The gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday 11.00am - 3.00 pm.