DALE ATKINSON
1st October - 21st November 2020
Dale Atkinson, Too Late Brave Comet, 2018, Oil on canvas, 92.3 x 73cm
Dale Atkinson is a figurative painter and draftsman whose work, as loosely allegoric as it is descriptive, relies upon the dynamo of suggestion to move it forward. Lost swimmers, passing comets, insomniacs laying traps for sleep, or saw-wielding manifestations of conscience will occupy the same uncertain arenas as chairs remembered from childhood and yesterday's bully. They tap into a short circuited world of intrusive sub plot where reason, if it exists, is the dummy pill and figure, object, line and colour are left to guide the dialogue.
As a painter his approach from first to last mark is one of endless shifts and interrogations. Initial impulses can take root and develop, or survive only as fossilised traces, consumed by the painting’s own evolving direction. He explores the circular relationship between what is known or seen and the disarming, yet oddly more real, undertow of conspiratorial chatter lurking just beneath - the secret futility, that recognises itself and yet hopefully, instinctively continues to recalibrate.
Dale Atkinson, Head full of Bees, 2018, Oil on canvas 152.5 x 76.5cm
Dale Atkinson, Head Study xx, 2018, 35.6 x 35.6cm
Born in Sunderland, Atkinson first studied at Sunderland Art College and then at Newcastle University. Now living in Gateshead he has exhibited nationally and internationally throughout his professional career. Atkinson’s paintings and drawings are held in public and private collections throughout the UK, USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Dale Atkinson, Head Study xviii, 2018, 35.6 x 35.6cm
Dale Atkinson, Flushed Out, 2019, 59.4 x 42cm
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