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BRUTAL ABSTRACTION:
NEW WORKS BY GARETH KEMP
17/11/22 - 4/12/22
OUTPUT is proud to present our next exhibition, a selection of new works in painting and sculpture by Gareth Kemp.

Gareth Kemp is an abstract artist based in Liverpool whose work plays with repetition, composition and form. His recent works feature shapes and visual signifiers recurring at different scales in both two and three-dimensions. Ideas flow freely between the pieces which blur the lines between painting and sculpture, with large canvasses free-standing in the gallery space or projecting away from the wall on architectural frames.

Within this playful framework, references appear to human interventions into the natural landscape and the minimalist art that inform Kemp’s work, such as Donald Judd's 15 Untitled Works in Concrete (1980-84) which the artist visited at its site in the desert in Marfa, West Texas. Kemp explains; “I have tried to capture certain aspects of the Texan landscape; scale, flatness, space and light, colour and vastness.”

Gareth has been painting since 2006, crediting his participation in the Turps Banana Correspondence Course from 2014 to 2017 for reinvigorating and developing his practice, leading to his works being exhibited at the John Moore’s Painting Prize (2016), Sluice Art Fair in Berlin (2018) and Art Letter Home, a touring exhibition in China (2018-19); in addition he has been nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts, taken up a New Contemporaries residency at Bluecoat and is also part of the current exhibition Refractive Pool, a survey of Liverpool painters, at the Walker Art Gallery.

Instagram: @garethkemp

Please join us for the exhibition launch on Thursday 17th November from 6-8pm.