- Venue
- Norwich Arts Centre
- Starts
- Friday, June 24, 2016
- Ends
- Saturday, August 6, 2016
- Address
- St Benedicts Street Norwich NR2 4PG
- Location
- East England
- Organiser
- Norwich Arts Centre
Infinite Perspectives are three-dimensional paintings on globes that offer a new and pioneering approach to the tradition of realist painting. Employing an innovative type of inverted perspective they give a 360° view of a space, with both the perspective and the representation slyly shifting, depending on which point you look at them.
The globes are the current obsession of Will Teather, an artist renowned for surreal figurative paintings and drawings often depicting curious characters caught up in bizarre situations. The origins of his work lie in magical realism; the carnival-esque and a sense of the uncanny are favourite subjects.
With Infinite Perspectives Teather is seeking to create extraordinary visual spectacles through painting. As he says, ‘It’s about the relationship between the 2D and the 3D, and about creating something closer to the way we see. Our eyes are spheres and rotate around a space and I wanted to find a way to depict that’.
Teather’s paintings on globes, and other unusually shaped canvases, have parallels and resonances with the work of both Patrick Hughes and Anthony Green, in the way that they play with shifting perspectives and the ways in which our eyes and brain make sense of what we see.
With influences as diverse as Flemish still life, baroque art and Weimar painters, the artist enters into direct conversation with the history of painting, and brings a contemporary sensibility to the table. His new and pioneering work is part of the long history of realist painting but takes it into a new direction, exploring new ground in the depiction of space and blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture.
