Glasgow gallery Kendall Koppe and London’s Seventeen are mounting a joint exhibition at the latter venue by Cornish-based artist Dickon Drury – The Preceding Cart and POV: You are Beans.
Exhibited concurrently, the exhibitions are the result of close Anglo-Scottish collaboration, between galleries and artist. The Preceding Cart uses unconventional framing devices and complex compositional decision-making, referencing John Kelsey’s idea of ‘painting in reverse’, and the idiom ‘cart before the horse’ – inviting us to reflect on the process of doing things counter-intuitively, or simply in the wrong order.
POV: You are Beans is a contemporary iteration of the ‘kitchen sink’ style of painting, described by David Sylvester in 1954 as including ‘everything but the kitchen sink – the kitchen sink too.’ The point of view meme is where a first-person camera position allows a video to show a given situation from the viewer’s perspective, and connecting to the idea that a solution to contemporary existential anxieties can be found through greater objectivity – the revolving perspective of the beans in our microwave helping us discover the certainty of that objectivity.
A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art and a recipient of its Desiree Painting Prize in 2016, in addition to Glasgow and London, Dickon has exhibited in Bristol, Stavanger and Los Angeles.
