until Sunday November 02 2014
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
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South Shore Road
NE8 3BA Gateshead
United Kingdom
For her first solo exhibition in a UK institution, British artist Lydia Gifford (born Cheltenham, 1979) has produced a new body of work for BALTIC’s ground floor gallery space.
The exhibition explores Gifford’s on-going concern with the language of painting and the balance between painting and object. The works, of a scale that is dictated by the artist’s own dimensions, have an almost human presence. Layered painted surfaces take on a skin-like translucency that, on close inspection, reveals a complex working and reworking.