I'm pleased
to announce details of a forthcoming exhibition I am taking part in with my artist
friend Andrew Smith. ‘Displaced’ opens next week at Birmingham’s T Street
Gallery, an alternative art gallery just on the edge of the city centre. The
exhibition has been curated by the gallery director, Sev, who has selected
works from both of us. Interestingly, I approached the gallery with my work
last year after visiting the excellent Carolyn Blake exhibition of paintings, ‘Space
and Place’, there and meeting Sev. I then told Andrew about it and he visited
himself, met Sev, and also sent in his work. Several months later Sev got in
touch and asked if I would be interested in a two-person exhibition with
another artist? I said ‘the other artist isn’t Andrew Smith is it?’ to which
the answer was yes! I’m telling the story because Andrew and I have
collaborated in a few exhibitions now that we have organised ourselves with
other artists in the last ten years, so it was a nice thing that someone else
chose to put us together this time with no idea of our shared history. It’s
also a nice change that Sev has entirely selected the work to exhibit from both
us and I will be showing a mixture of new paintings and some older ones too,
including some of my trucks. It will be interesting to see different works from
different periods or series of work rubbing shoulders with each other. I’m
really excited. We will be installing on Wednesday and opening on Thursday.
Here’s the press statement below from the gallery and a link to the website….
T Street is re-opening its doors with new exhibition 'Displaced'-
Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year (2021) participant Shaun Morris and fellow Birmingham based artist Andrew Smith come together in this joint exhibition to explore works that question our concepts of space and emotion.
Over the past year, the notion of space/non-space, our surroundings and our interactions have become displaced from normality. We've been forced to reflect upon our relationships with areas and places we've been isolated to and enclosed in and how our methods of communications connect or disconnect.
Displaced is an exhibition of works by Andrew and Shaun that invites the audience to perceive and reflect upon these concepts.
https://www.sevvenkucuk.com/tstreetgallery
