GORDON DALTON: ABANDON ALL HOPE
28th January – 5th March 2022
Preview: Thursday 27th January 5.30 – 7.30pm
Gordon Dalton (b. 1970) is a contemporary painter from Middlesbrough, based in Saltburn by the Sea. He holds a Fine Art degree from The University of Wales and an MFA from Northumbria University. The subject matter of his colourful, abstracted, painting spans industrial and natural landscapes. This new solo show, Abandon All Hope, will be the first time that Gordon exhibits at Gallagher & Turner.
Big Dipper (Abandoned Funfair), 2020
Acrylic on canvas, 78 x 50cm
I am so lonely without you, 2018
Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30cm
Gordon’s recent paintings have a quiet melancholy that questions their intentions. An anxious contradiction is on show, with the work being self-conscious of what it is and its possible failings. It revels in a newfound simplicity and relationships to landscape painting, finding an intimate beauty in both natural and post-industrial landscape. Gordon’s work asks the viewer to look longer at what painting is, and why it continues to fascinate.
‘I’m trying to make the viewer look longer and harder, to have a one-on-one relationship with landscape painting, to make them curious and find some joy. The places depicted in my work are partly an invention, full of contrasts and spontaneity. They combine memories and motifs of places I have lived or longingly imagined, an idea of a place and the melancholy of longing and wanting to belong. An unfashionable romanticism grounded in the act of painting.’
Does anyone ever get this right? 2019
Acrylic and pastel on canvas, 80 x 80cm
A heart-shaped hole where the hope falls out, 2020
Acrylic and pastel on canvas, 80 x 80cm
Gordon Dalton is represented by Aleph Contemporary and is a board member of Contemporary British Painting.
Selected solo exhibitions:
Auxiliary Warehouse, Middlesbrough
Trade Gallery, Nottingham
Bay Art, Cardiff
Last Gallery, Llangadog
Bank Gallery, Los Angeles
Keith Talent, London
Marksman Gallery, Reading
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Moot Gallery, Nottingham (with S Mark Gubb)
Selected group shows:
Royal Academy, London
Matthew Burrows Selects, Unit 1 Gallery, London
Contemporary British Painting Prize, Riverside Gallery, Richmond
Beep Wales Painting Prize, Swansea
Del Infinito Art Gallery, Buenos Aires
Terrace Gallery, London
National Eisteddfod of Wales, Abergavenny
Bank Art, Los Angeles
Galerie Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
Moravian Museum, Czech Republic
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