GALLERY 1: SUSANNE PEARCE ‘A Material World’ Mar 25 – Apr 11 2009

The works are large-scale colourful abstract assemblages, in which I merge the pictorial and the sculptural, and whose components appear to fall, slip, slump, droop, and collapse under the force of gravity. This downwards trajectory and the use of a range of materials with varied tactility, texture and density are devices I use to emphasise the concrete stuff of our world and challenge claims of the metaphysical and transcendental which underpinned much of 20C abstraction (and of which there are residues today). I use colour and humour and unlikely juxtapositions to engage the viewer and draw attention to the material world.