Altar
Four-plate polymer etching on Somerset Satin White 300gsm Paper size: 90 x 67.5 cm; image size 78.5 x 57.5 cm
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© Denzil Forrester - Commissioned by the Government Art Collection for The Robson Orr TenTen Award 2024
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© Denzil Forrester - Commissioned by the Government Art Collection for The Robson Orr TenTen Award 2024
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
Forrester describes his childhood, surrounded by the natural beauty of Grenada, as helping him to appreciate colour. Now, he sees the ‘brilliant light’ of Cornwall infiltrating his work: ‘It’s like painting in Italy.' While the figures in his work are crowded together, the spaces in between, in the artist’s words, ‘echo the music of the blues clubs, but are also reminiscent of the light that breaks through a forest, or the light that reflects from a nightclub’s mirrored ball. So sound, nature and the city are linked’. -
About the artist
Born in Grenada in 1956, Denzil Forrester moved to London in 1967. He received a BA in Fine Art from the Central School of Art, London in 1979 and an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art, London in 1983. He was awarded a scholarship by the British School at Rome in 1983-85 and a Harkness Fellowship in New York in 1986-88. He now lives and works in Cornwall, UK.
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Explore
- Places
- Falmouth
- Subjects
- music, crowd, fair/festival/carnival, reggae music, dub music
- Materials & Techniques
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Details
- Artist
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Denzil Forrester (1956 - )
- Title
- Altar
- Date
- 2024
- Medium
- Four-plate polymer etching on Somerset Satin White 300gsm Paper size: 90 x 67.5 cm; image size 78.5 x 57.5 cm
- Provenance
- The Artist; from whom commissioned by the Government Art Collection for The Robson Orr TenTen Award 2024, October 2024
- GAC number
- 19329/13