 Long abandoned by all but a few, 2004 oil on canvas, 71 x 56 cm Peter Lynch Long abandoned by all but a few Today's painting has to earn its keep like never before. We have enough pictures, thank you very much. We have plenty of images and signs to keep us going. And I don't think we're short of things either. There's not much call, then, for a painting that is simply a picture, and image or a thing. That's where Peter Lynch's works come in. These are manifestly things - often quite big and layered and worked - but they also have a sign writer's visual immediacy, and a picture's unfolding back-story. They are shiny and fresh and corroded, too. They are one-coloured surfaces if one colour satisfies you (grey, perhaps), but there's stratified variety if you have enough time. There's a past in their present, and a depth to their flatness. What are they, then? Long abandoned by all but a few, painting returns in the work of Peter Lynch to the patient Real that often slips our minds. Text: John Calcutt, 2005 Peter Lynch was born in Burnley in 1971. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and then at Goldsmiths College, London. Solo exhibitions include Glasgow School of Art (2001); Galerie Katherina Krohn, Basel (2002); Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (2003) and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2003). Exhibition: 28 April - 28 May 2005 Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 12 am - 6 pm Andrew Mummery Gallery 63 Compton Street UK-London EC1V 0BN Telephone +44 (0)20 7251 6265 Fax +44 (0)20 7251 5545 Email info@andrewmummery.com www.andrewmummery.com |
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