A Moment or Two, a Joint Exhibition with Andrew North, 2020
These sculptural objects are duets, like Flanders and Swan, or as some are more. Some find each other on the dance floor and only there. Some have purely sculptural relations, substances regulate each other.
Can it be amusing and investigative; speculative as you project a human relation on to them?
They all exist in our world so this is another side to what they are about. Like how trees talk to each other by using mycelia under the ground with their roots.
If this fits anywhere.
There is no finality you can always pick it up and look at it.
There is nothing evidential in life.
The palms of my mothers
Hands are
Precious like wheat grass
The wild grasses
That means the utmost to my heart
I see the foundation of dance is my soul wants to physically touch the truth.
I want to leave my poetry as a fighter leaves his sword
On a knight's grave
Machado
At the bottom of a street or the bottom of a well
No matter
These are colours working greys and white
You're in death when you’re in life and life when you’re in death
Andrew North
A Moment or Two
We live in an age of mass consumption. Moments are brief, items are disposable, and images are instant.
Art can not rival the immediacy of mass media. Large salon paintings, flashy multi media installations, video work of the artist as subject; art which seeks to compete for likes and that which is not authentic will not last long.
Norths work searches for a moment of timelessness. Eternal, melancholic. They are as artworks contemplative, slow, reflective, thoughtful. They respond to the world and attempt to restore it in its beauty and tragedy, not through argument but through feeling.
Without glorifying his position as artist, North attempts to mediate between a history and an experience of the world.
His work in this joint exhibition aims to bring a moment into an image, and an image into an emotion.
Contact Andrew North
Email andrewnorth.uk@gmail.com