Group Exhibition, Collection
JAN 2023 - JAN 2025
Graves Gallery, Sheffield
Discover how artists have experimented with colour and form, with displays including work by Avinash Chandra, Naum Gabo, Bridget Riley and more.
The works in this gallery can loosely be described as abstract, where focus is on colour, form and line rather than realistic depictions of the world. Abstraction became the dominant artistic practice during the early 20th century and has remained an enduring aesthetic ever since.
In these displays you'll see how artists such as Bridget Riley and François Morrellet were interested in the ways in which vision can be manipulated through colour and form.
Other artists featured here, like Kenneth Martin and Jean Spencer, employed a systematic, logical approach to making work. You'll also find works by John Hoyland and Alan Davie, who included a more emotional and psychological aspect to their art.
These displays are part of a five-year programme of change and redisplay at the Graves Gallery generously supported by the Ampersand Foundation.
As part of this rotating collection, Graves Gallery is proud to welcome the multi screen installation Trigger Happy Discipline of Sheffield based artist Joseph Cutts.
Complete Programme Listing here
Installation view (alongside 'Conrtruction in Space', Naum Gabo, 1938) - 'Trigger Happy Discipline' (2016)