‘Abstract Painting Now’ at RWA Bristol
Jackson Pollock, ‘Yellow Islands’ (1952), oil on canvas, 143.5 x 185.4 cm. Still relevant to abstract painting now?
Riding in on the slipstream of its current show, ‘Albert Irvin and Abstract Expressionism’, RWA Bristol’s ‘Abstract Painting Now’, co-hosted by the University of Gloucestershire, is a one-day symposium focusing on ‘the current status of non-figurative painting’. Sounds intriguing; still, Instantloveland can’t help but wonder- with apologies to the Smiths- how recently is now? The symposium programme isn’t giving an awful lot away; but going by the titles of the various papers due to be delivered, now encompasses a good deal of Irvin’s career, and stretches all the way back to 1970 to allow one of the speakers, Matthew Macaulay, to address the topic ‘Abstract Painters in Higher Education’. Instantloveland will be attending, in the hope of getting a definitive answer as to when exactly now is…
‘Abstract Painting Now’, despite its title, isn’t on now. It’s on February 4th, at RWA Bristol.
Tickets £30 for institutionally affiliated attendees, £20 to others, £15 to RWA members, students, and unwaged.