- Venue
- Rowan Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, July 30, 2010
- Ends
- Monday, August 2, 2010
- Address
- Rowan 40 Humberstone Road Cambridge CB4 1JG
- Location
- East England
Loukas Morley’s particular skill is pulling the poetry out of the chaos so that you stop and say, oh. Here is beauty where we did not expect it. His portrayal wakes us up to the importance of things which have been thrown away or stood on, which once were loved and have become unloved because in using them they got battered, lost their shapes, were kicked away by their owners, often not even into a bin where they might be recycled and given a new shape and life. Loukas uses reclaimed materials and found objects and frames them so that they become the starting point for something else, or can be looked at as they are now but in a cool, calm setting so that a discarded and squashed shopping basket is made central. Its setting lets us see and recognise it again, and differently. Using the media of collage, bricolage, gestural drawings and paintings he practises intuitive responses to feelings and thoughts, and faithfulness to ideas. Loukas’s work is precise and spare, but what his simplicity of line and mark triggers in us is a rich and luxurious poem of our own. His work is robust, and elegant, and resonates with that quality which no human being should ever have to live without: beauty.
