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Artist Curated: Ten Artworks in Ten Minutes
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SUZY MURPHY curates - Ten artworks in ten minutes
We are pleased to present the first in a series of artist-curated viewing rooms, where a gallery artist has selected ten works from our inventory. All we have asked is that they choose pieces that they find engaging, inspiring or thought-provoking.
Our aim is that this distillation will encourage us all to look more closely and to see familiar pictures in a new way - helping us to better understand both the works that have been chosen and the artist who has chosen them. -
Helen Frankenthaler
Japanese Maple, 2005I wanted to start with this beautiful print by Frankenthaler. Its not just the beauty, but the completeness of this work, that draws me in. Her saturated colour fills every piece of the paper. She has totally mastered her own language. -
Hammick’s works take me on a visual journey. His colours vibrate on a special frequency that transport me to a world that is uniquely his. I find myself there, in this world, wishing I could stay.
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David Hockney
17 May 2011, 2011It was essential for me to include a work by Hockney. Not only have I always loved his work, I’ve always respected how he pushes through barriers to find new ways of making art. Here he is, in his 70’s, making IPad drawings, then blowing them up so large, you could walk into them. Stunning. -
Georgie Hopton
Fontainebleau, 2020In Hopton’s work I see someone who wants to give equality to all things. So whether it’s vegetables from her garden (that she herself has grown) or paper cut outs, or photographs of herself placed amongst these personal objects, they are all one and the same thing. They are all part of her reality, and what it means to be her, living in her world. Art and craft dissolve into one... and for me this is dazzling. -
Georgie Hopton
Gathering Globe Amaranth, 2007I’ve chosen this photo of Hopton’s not only because it is beautiful and harmonious but because it embodies all that she is about. Herself, placed in her garden, amongst the flowers that she has grown. -
Gary Hume
Plant, 2000Hume’s line drawings tell me a story of someone who has spent their life looking. Really looking. Everything unnecessary is removed so all that remains is what is meant to be there. There is so much intelligence in his lines, and it’s this, more than anything, that captures me. -
Ellsworth Kelly
Black, 1964-65Kelly’s works are monumental in their simplicity. He understands the bare bones of what is needed to have a visual experience with his art. It’s like camouflage. We feel there is something hidden beneath. Genius really. I would love to have this hanging on my studio wall. -
Which leads onto this print... Kelly’s abstraction at its best. A totem of sensation... shape & colour...pure visual joy.
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Ellsworth Kelly
Melon Leaf, 1965-66I love the beauty and simplicity of this work. His line drawings also tell me how well he observed the natural world, and how that knowledge must have informed his process of abstraction.
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... because it will. It saves mine every day.
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List of Works
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Works Available By Suzy Murphy
