Art / Antlers Gallery
Art exhibition in former Harold Hockey shop
Artist Max Naylor and peripatetic gallery Antlers are presenting an exhibition of Max’s new work at the former Harold Hockey art supplies shop at the top of Whiteladies Road. The show runs until June 7.
The exhibition will feature new ink on paper pictures. The artworks were created in the UK and in India where Max was participating in a teaching residency. His work represents spaces and environments that he has seen, he has remembered and that he has imagined. The concept behind much of his art is the exploration of how we remember and experience a sense of ‘place’.
Max juxtaposes and positions rural, typically English scenes against images of exotic and esoteric India and other ambiguous locations to question received ideas of permanent and fixed spaces in favour of imagination and memory.
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His artwork is highly coloured and textural depicting fluid vistas which seem familiar and recognisable but also hint at something less obvious and more allusive which compels the viewer to concentrate and explore the work in greater depth.
Antlers have worked with Max before. Prior to his leaving Bristol to study at the Royal Drawing School his work was featured in the early show Uncanny Views in 2011.
Electric Dreams is a return to the original Antlers modus operandi of finding a space and quickly staging an exhibition, and hopefully will be just the start of more pop-up shows across Bristol.
In addition to the exhibition Max will be facilitating an all-day drawing workshop entitled Walk The Line on June 7. Walk the Line begins with a guided walking tour in the morning where participants are encouraged to take notes, make sketches and think about how they are going to transfer these impressions to paper when they return to the gallery in the afternoon.
For more information, visit www.antlersgallery.com/project/electric-dreams