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The past crumbles, sediments, re-emerges and shapes the landscape; it dissolves into strokes of colour. It does not simply haunt the present: it is a constitutive part of it.
In this new series of paintings, British artist and researcher Robert Mead proposes a multifaceted exploration of temporality, the simultaneity of presence and absence, corporeality and spectrality, and cumulative environmental change inspired by the coastal landscapes of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. The collection welcomes the spectral aspects of existence; looking at the paintings, we are reminded that the living are but ‘ghosts on temporary reprieve’. By using a selection of pigments harvested from the very East Anglian landscapes that inspire his work, Mead layers the past and the present, materiality and abstraction, memory and creation.
At the heart of the artistic project lies a profound concern with loss: ecological loss connected to coastal erosion and environmental degradatio…
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The past crumbles, sediments, re-emerges and shapes the landscape; it dissolves into strokes of colour. It does not simply haunt the present: it is a constitutive part of it.
In this new series of paintings, British artist and researcher Robert Mead proposes a multifaceted exploration of temporality, the simultaneity of presence and absence, corporeality and spectrality, and cumulative environmental change inspired by the coastal landscapes of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. The collection welcomes the spectral aspects of existence; looking at the paintings, we are reminded that the living are but ‘ghosts on temporary reprieve’. By using a selection of pigments harvested from the very East Anglian landscapes that inspire his work, Mead layers the past and the present, materiality and abstraction, memory and creation.
At the heart of the artistic project lies a profound concern with loss: ecological loss connected to coastal erosion and environmental degradatio…
