Event: Private View - ENDURING PATTERNS: Frances Ferdinands Exhibition
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Start Date: 05.03.2020. Start Time: 18:00
Location: Camden Image Gallery, 174 Royal College Street
The Noble Sage is proud to present the work of Canadian-Sri Lankan artist Frances Ferdinands and her new series of paintings. ‘Enduring Patterns’ will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK after a forty-year career.
The newest series of paintings relate back to one of Ferdinands’ earliest inspirations: the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the 1970s and 80s. Emerging out of the Feminist Art Movement of the late 1960s, Pattern and Decoration (P&D) declared itself vehemently aside from figuration and abstraction. It was within the much-derided arena of ‘the decorative’ that the group felt the greatest freedom.
Decoration, an essential aspect of every human culture since the beginning of civilization, allowed a new alternate art history to be manifested that was inclusive and refreshing. Patriarchal Western civilization had adopted the stance that art that was decorative should be subjugated as less important than other so-called Fine Arts. Yet those other Fine Arts inevitably were driven and defined only by white men. Decoration by contrast associated itself with artistry, femininity, craft, humanity, multiculturalism, and most of all the essence of beauty that bound all artists in their quest.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/private-view-enduring-patterns-frances-ferdinands-exhibition-tickets-93925488665
The newest series of paintings relate back to one of Ferdinands’ earliest inspirations: the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the 1970s and 80s. Emerging out of the Feminist Art Movement of the late 1960s, Pattern and Decoration (P&D) declared itself vehemently aside from figuration and abstraction. It was within the much-derided arena of ‘the decorative’ that the group felt the greatest freedom.
Decoration, an essential aspect of every human culture since the beginning of civilization, allowed a new alternate art history to be manifested that was inclusive and refreshing. Patriarchal Western civilization had adopted the stance that art that was decorative should be subjugated as less important than other so-called Fine Arts. Yet those other Fine Arts inevitably were driven and defined only by white men. Decoration by contrast associated itself with artistry, femininity, craft, humanity, multiculturalism, and most of all the essence of beauty that bound all artists in their quest.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/private-view-enduring-patterns-frances-ferdinands-exhibition-tickets-93925488665
