Image:You Change Me – Oil on paper 94 x 120cm
Previously unreleased works by Paul McGowan. McGowan’s work has featured amongst the likes of Damien Hirst, Stella Vine, Rankin and Patrick Hughes.
His varied career includes involvement in the development of Spectrum, a Cornish autism charity that is heading a pioneering study in the relationship between autism and art. McGowan began an artist residency at the Eden Projects in 2008 after the purchase of his work by chief executive, Tim Smit. ‘Living on The Edge’; a program exploring the effect of man on the environment, marked the beginning of the residency.
At Mauger Modern Art London Paul will be exhibiting his new works that have followed on from the Eden Project.
This exhibition will include Large Paintings, multi media and installation pieces. There will also be a selection of McGowan’s experimental collaborative pieces. The second show will include key pieces from his original Body of work from the Living on The Edge series, and a selection of new works including drawings.
This exhibition will be the overview of the 3 years of McGowan’s work starting from his appointment as The Eden Projects Artist in residence. This will be a unique view into the vast body of work Produced by McGowan over the last 3 years. ‘I feel we are now confronted with a choice. ‘We are standing on the precipice.
Things will have to start changing. The physical and emotional landscape is changing and there is so much tension and anxiety all around us.’ The 3rd show will be staged back at the Eden Project and will focus on His Blockhead project collaborations with artists from a variety of artistic backgrounds. It will be his final work for the Eden Project. The collaborations will include paintings, installations and audio pieces that have been developed for the precipice series.
McGowan informs us that where ‘Living on the Edge’ was about the effect Man has on our surroundings, ‘Precipice’ is about the effect the surrounding we have created has on us and our own existence. Examining social fear and anxiety. This Exhibition will include The much publicised ‘Divinity of ‘Monsters’ Now in the private collection of London art collector Udhyam Amin. McGowan is currently revising the 3rd panel of the triptych that was described in Vanessa Thorpe column in The Guardian as ‘A potent symbol of a culture that’s losing its self-respect’.
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