James Whitington

2 to 21 February 2010

I have approached the visual arts through the medium of printmaking which lends itself to experimentation and risky play.

My printmaking informs my painting. Both develop a nonfigurative language with a focus on my interior world. Exterior reference is apparent, but it is incidental. I don’t begin with an exterior subject, rather an anthrocentric structure developed from within. This structure provides a framework for what is spontaneous. It is what the Chinese call “hou chou”. Translated this means “refined clumsiness”. My work belongs to a stream of primal and calligraphic mark making that meets the objective exterior reality with its own gestural language.

James Whitington, 2010

Exhibition catalogue

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