PRECIPICE- PAUL MCGOWAN
Mauger Modern Art In London 10 June to 3 July 2010 Mauger Modern Art, 81 Rochester Row, London SW1P 1LJ. Mauger Modern Art in Bath 8 July to 31 July at 6 Bartlett Street, Bath, BA1 2QZ. Contact Richard Mauger for Details 0044 (0) 1225 315 110. Eden Project date to be announced. This Year Paul McGowan is opening 3 progressive bodies of work that follow on from the Eden Projects 'Living on The Edge' Program. Each of the 3 shows will have its own identity. The new works were produced on McGowan's Ark Studio that was given to him by Spectrum, a Cornish autism charity that is heading a pioneering study in the relationship between autism and art. A program that McGowan is participating in and helping Spectrum to develop. At Mauger Modern Art London Paul will be exhibiting his new works that have followed on from the Eden Project. This exhibition will include Large Paintings, multi media and installation pieces. There will also be a selection of McGowan's experimental collaborative pieces. The second show will include key pieces from his original Body of work from the Living on The Edge series, and a selection of new works including drawings. This exhibition will be the overview of the 3 years of McGowan's work starting from his appointment as The Eden Projects Artist in residence. This will be a unique view into the vast body of work Produced by McGowan over the last 3 years. 'I feel we are now confronted with a choice. 'We are standing on the precipice. Things will have to start changing. The physical and emotional landscape is changing and there is so much tension and anxiety all around us.' The 3rd show will be staged back at the Eden Project and will focus on His Blockhead project collaborations with artists from a variety of artistic backgrounds. It will be his final work for the Eden Project. The collaborations will include paintings, installations and audio pieces that have been developed for the precipice series. McGowan informs us that where 'Living on the Edge' was about the effect Man has on our surroundings, 'Precipice' is about the effect the surrounding we have created has on us and our own existence. Examining social fear and anxiety. This Exhibition will include The much publicised 'Divinity of 'Monsters' Now in the private collection of London art collector Udhyam Amin. McGowan is currently revising the 3rd panel of the triptych that was described in Vanessa Thorpe column in The Guardian as 'A potent symbol of a culture that's losing its self-respect'.
  
 
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