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INSIGHT: Week 3 | ANGELA HEISCH
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INSIGHT IS A NEW ONLINE PLATFORM PRESENTED BY PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY, DEBUTING WORK BY A DIFFERENT ARTIST EACH WEEk. NEW WORK MADE DURING LOCKDOWN WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED ALONGSIDE A VIDEO STUDIO VISIT PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST.
INSIGHT runs alongside the main gallery programme
Painting with Light: The Photography of Ming Smith: view here
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INSIGHT: WEEK 3 | ANGELA HEISCH
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Rendered with a luminous application of colour, Angela Heisch’s paintings are composed of repeated motifs, curving forms, and delicate dark lines. Drawing inspiration from organic bodies, patterns in nature, and architecture, the artist’s abstract language seeks to capture the sensation of her observations. Heisch’s enigmatic forms encounter one another on the canvas, creating tension or waves of energy though interlocking or obstructive relationships. Each work is characterised by a sense of movement, a fluidity reflected in the opposing properties that coexist on the canvas – hard and soft, light and dark, flatness and depth. Presenting her paintings psychological spaces, Heisch seeks an active relationship with the viewer, provoking playful engagement through association and familiar forms.
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‘A physical vocabulary is instead required to describe them—hard and soft, liquid and solid, plastic and rigid—these are the dialectics at play in the paintings.’
Alex A. Jones, The Brooklyn Rail, 2018
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‘… what her paintings present is not a fixed arrangement of shapes, but a dynamic interplay of breathing, sentient bodies that are fluid and shifting. It is this protean capacity of Angela’s forms that is of utmost importance within her work.’
Rebecca Irvin, Art Maze Magazine, 2020
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‘I’m curious [about] making paintings that peer back at the viewer, that are confrontational, whilst also playful and inquisitive’
Angela Heisch, Art Maze Magazine, 2020