McEndoo & Hicks

Location

Penwith Gallery, St Ives

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Dates

Fri 16th May, 2025 — Mon 16th June, 2025

Join us for the preview on Friday 16th May 17:30 onwards, all welcome!

About this event

Abstract paintings and primitive sculpture echoing the Ancient Cornish land.

Based in Cornwall, Karen McEndoo’s work is drawn from the dichotomy of chaos and humanity’s constant search for balance, exploring the diametric of light and dark, existence, non-existence, matter and anti-matter.

Bleary forms abut sharp blocks of colour generating a sense of movement; a dancing shift in focus. At first seemingly restful, McEndoo’s work is imbued with a taut energy.

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Aidan Hicks likes to use all sorts of stone, even concrete, but has found that the richly textured and mineralised granite he sources from his own family farm has a very special appeal. He finds it very satisfying to take rock from earth that has both a personal and long family association and then re-form it into sculpture.

This taking of the stone from the earth also fits with many of his inspirations for his work. He has always been interested in the relationship people have had with stone in their environment, in archaeology and ancient and mediaeval sculpture. The ambiguities introduced to an antique object through weathering, together with the inevitable erosion of original meaning over time, is also something he thinks about when shaping his stones.

Contact

01736 795 579 | https://penwithgallery.com/exhibition/karen-mcendoo-aidan-hicks/

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