DECOMPOSITION
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TOXIC LAGOON 1987 Tim Head (1946 – ) P5834 © The Artist
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MEAT ABSTRACT # 8 1989 Helen Chadwick (1953 – 1996) P5763 © The Estate of Helen Chadwick, Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery
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WHELP 1990 Boyd Webb (1947 – ) P5976/A © Boyd Webb. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015.
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PROJECTED INTERIORS sitting room 1989 Helen Sear (1955 – ) P5813/A © The Artist
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MEAT ABSTRACT # 1 1989 Helen Chadwick (1953 – 1996) P5760 © The Estate of Helen Chadwick, Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery
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UNTITLED (BASKET WITH GLASS) 1991 Hannah Collins (1956 – ) P5828 © Hannah Collins. All Rights Reserved, DACS. 2018.
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DEAF MAN'S VILLA 1989 Calum Colvin (1961 – ) P5827 © Calum Colvin
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MR AND MRS ANDREWS BUY THEIR FIRST HOME 1989 Lea Andrews (1958 – ) P6529 © The Artist
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ADAM AND EVE 1989 Ron O'donnell (1952 – ) P5695 © The Artist
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NATURAL HABITAT living room 1989 Helen Sear (1955 – ) P5810/A © The Artist
This exhibition was mounted in 1991 to celebrate the achievements of a new generation of British fine artists who began to use photography as a medium of expression during the late 1980s. Work by senior artists, such as Boyd Webb, Tim Head and Keith Arnatt was shown alongside artists from a slightly younger generation including Helen Sear, Ron O’Donnell, Lea Andrews, Mari Mahr, Hannah Collins and Helen Chadwick. As suggested by the exhibition title, themes of environmental destruction linked much of the work along with the exploration of issues concerned with the history of pictorial expression. From the confident use of computer programming to the large cibachromes of Boyd Webb to the exquisite silver gelatin printings on a colossal scale employed by Hannah Collins, these works demonstrated that technological innovations married to the fundamentals of picture-making created a wholly original format in which to formulate meaning.
A card featuring one work by each artist and an introductory text card by Andrea Rose.
A Polish catalogue was published by Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, with a foreword by Nawojka Cieślińska and essays by Urzsula Czartoryska and Brett Rogers. ISBN 83-906130-4-2
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Medium
Refers to either the material used to create a work of art, craft or design, i.e. oil, bronze, earthenware, silk; or the technique employed i.e. collage, etching, carving. In painting the medium refers to the binder for the pigment, e.g. oil, egg, acrylic dispersion. The plural form is media.