PRUNING SHOCK....

Too busy, no time for blogs, paint must fly, Cultivating 24/7... The Art Is For Life show flowed through Christmas and New Year, the Everything Must Go show threw up more questions about what price art and such, I'll blog about it all tomorrow.... Tonight we do some pruning...

PRUNING SHOCK @ Cultivate, Vyner Street - 20^th – 22^nd January 2012.

Pruning Shock is a quick bit of pruning, a last minute weekend show and some recent gardening from ALAN WILSON and SEAN WORRALL

Opening night view, Thursday 19th Jan, 6pm until 9pm and then we run through to Sunday January 22^nd at Cultivate, Vyner Street...

Pruning, cultivate, plant growth... "If you prune a plant back hard the fear is it might die, the upper shoots in shock - the hope is it will be ten times more productive"

Alan Wilson came in to the gallery a few weeks ago, he had his pieces of work in the back of his van with all his gardening tools, We don’t know too much about Alan, I think he likes it that way. An artist, a Scotsman, a gardener, his website does say “ask me anything”, it is tempting not to, tempting just to read his beautiful creativity without really knowing anything in terms of his own intent.

Sean Worrall's current body of paintings explore the notions of new layers reclaiming those things that are left decay, notions of Trillion Green and the Captain's Table, the idea that our cities will eventually be covered and lost in new layers, in the short term as we use them as a street art canvas then as nature paints her leaf-shaped beauty over the mess we make as she makes it her own again. Sean's paintings explore the taking back of old walls, the growing over, the freshness of new leaves, new marks, old surfaces, always growing, new weathered marks over old faded scars, new layers, new leaves, fresh leaves, new growth over old, new shoots, new paint over old, new street art on old city walls, new art over old walls, new leaf layers over old decaying layers, the covering up, the taking back of unloved surfaces, spaces reclaimed both my human hand and nature's growth. Layers,

More details, links and such: www.cultivatevynerstreet.com