Saturday 2 April 2011

Show


At the beginning of July 2010 I put together a solo exhibition for AND/OR, a space on Mare Street in Hackney.  It was part of a series of one-week one-person exhibitions at the gallery.

Cottages, 2009.

Following on from previous work, the paintings were again based on suburbs and small towns in Canada and the UK, familiar places.  My path back to these neighbourhoods was through research into local scandal, disappearances, crime; events seldom spoken of.  I suppose the paintings originate from a conflation of memory, document and rumour.

Installation view.
Installation view.
Row, 2010.
Pickering, 2009.
The page at the gallery's website:  http://www.creativeandorcultural.com/exhibitions/mark-beldan

Many thanks to George Unsworth and Owen Pidcock for making the show happen.