Space for Colour - Adam Barker-Mill
27 February - 10 April 2010
The current exhibition brings together a series of displays focussing on colour. At the heart of the exhibition is the gallery’s permanent Collection, highlighting the important role that colour occupies within the works and the impact that this has had on subsequent additions to the Collection.
Remarking on the difference between the St Ives collection held at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, and the Pier Arts Centre’s collection, which toured there in 2004, Director, Michael Harrison noted that: “Jim Ede had collected in black and white, while Margaret Gardiner had collected in colour.” This simple observation provides a clear insight into Margaret’s interest as she accrued the works that now form the core of the Pier Arts Centre’s Collection. Curatorially it has also provided a strong basis from which to add works by contemporary artist to the Collection.
These new additions, which include a new edition of prints by Anish Kapoor, are on display throughout the gallery and in turn they allow new readings of the core Collection while opening a discourse between the modernist works of the 20th century and the present day aesthetics embedded in the new additions.
Beyond the works in the Collection a centrepiece to the exhibition is a large-scale installation by Adam Barker-Mill. His work Colour Play emphasises the physical effects and emotional charge that colour holds and underscores the role colour serves in the Pier Arts Centre Collection and exhibitions programme.
Colour Play was originated by Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen in 2009
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