Monuments: Basil Beattie, John Hoyland, Albert Irvin

15 Jul-30 Jul 2023

PV 14 Jul 2023, 5-8pm

Detail of John Hoyland, 22.6.70, 1970, Acrylic on canvas, 213.5 x 515.6 cm

Overview

Off-site at Thames-Side Studios, Harrington Way, London, SE18 5NR

Hales is delighted to announce Monuments, a special project by Paul Hedge, Hales Gallery co-founder, and London based painter, Paul Moriarty. Taking place at London's Thames-Side Studios, Monuments brings together specially selected monumental abstract paintings by three legendary artists and contemporaries, John Hoyland RA, Albert Irvin OBE RA and Basil Beattie RA. Both Hedge and Moriarty share a deep interest, passion and knowledge for these artists and see Monuments as an opportunity to showcase some of their most ambitious work.

Monuments explores breakthrough moments in each artists' oeuvre over the course of three decades. The show celebrates these key periods of painterly development, in which they explored a desire to make innovative work which envelops the viewer. During their long careers they made, and in the case of Beattie continue to make, paintings on a vast scale in which reference is made to architectural form.

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