Basil Beattie : Promises, Promises

12 Oct 2013-8 Jan 2014

Overview

Basil Beattie, a major figure in the British avant-garde of the late twentieth and twenty first centuries, has become one of Britain's most respected abstract artists. Celebrated for his powerful, large scale canvases, Beattie was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1998 and 2001. This awe-inspiring exhibition puts into focus Beattie's most recent work, largely unseen, which continues to develop the expressive possibilities which had interested him when he first encountered American painting in the 1950a, particularly the work of Mark Rothko, Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning.