Eric Bainbridge : Potholes

30 Jan-2 Apr 2016

Overview

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) present a solo exhibition of drawings by Eric Bainbridge. The show brings together a selection of Bainbridge's works on paper from 1981 to the present day. The exhibition will include preliminary sketches for potential sculptures, revealing the artist's studio processes. The drawings, on gridded and lined paper as well as office stationary, illuminate many aspects of Bainbridge's sculptural work, giving shape to his provisional ideas. Seen collectively, the drawings provide an insight into an artist tentatively working through things. Evidenced throughout Bainbridge's drawings are attempts to both engage and unsettle the sometimes macho and puritanical aspects of Modernist sculpture. By embracing the irregular, the absurd, and the cute as aesthetic strategies, the artist reinvigorates historical sculptural tropes with a wry humour.