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Anteros Norwich presents a strong programme of contemporary work, much of which has utilised traditional arts techniques. The exhibiting artists often host discussions, workshops and demonstrations to integrate their creative process into the Anteros experience for all visitors.
Influential and well-known abstract artist Roger Ackling has burnt into found pieces of wood with just a magnifying glass. Each of the ten works took a different amount of time to make, depending on the brightness of the light and the clouds in the sky, so as a whole they are a record of the changing weather at the time and place they were made.
Like his friends and colleagues Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, Ackling belongs to the generation of artists who graduated from St Martins School of Art in the 1960s with a sense of the possibility of taking art out of the studio. Sculpture, they decided, could be anything they wanted it to be: a walk though the Cairngorms, a bicycle ride through France, or in Ackling's case, a small piece of found wood marked by the sun.
For the past 35 years, Ackling has made all of his work by the same method: focusing sunlight through a hand held magnifying glass to draw onto pieces of discarded wood or scraps of card which he rescues from the edges of our everyday lives. It is an intense and meditative process; each mark, like a tiny sun, measuring the existence of a ray of light on its passage to earth from a source many millions of miles away. The resulting works have a weight and strength and sombre stillness which belies their often small scale and everyday origins. They have the power to transform the environment that they inhabit: making quiet interventions that subtly alter the space around them. Ackling's work urges a renewed awareness of the small, the silent, the marginal, the overlooked.
Will Teather is artist-in-residence at Anteros. His exhibition featured detailed drawings of some of the local people he sees every week. But these familiar faces are made characteristically strange and dreamlike through his use of strange angles, unusual perspectives and dramatic foreshortening.
There was also a new series of large-scale paintings depicting impossible scenes, such as Edwardian cyclists balancing on a highwire over Big Ben.
"In the spirit of magical-realist fiction, the storytelling explores the indefinite space between reality and fiction, horror and humour, fantasy and fact. Vaudevillian characters inhabit a play without beginning or end, where carnival and folk traditions are pastiched together, allowing illusion to work and the improbable to become possible." Will explained.
Will Teather: New Paintings and Drawings rand from 21st May – 4th July 2011 and was also part of Norfolk Open Studios.
