Alistair Skinner

Alistair Skinner's career spanned several productive periods from the 1970’s. This exhibition presented the artist’s latest work alongside relevant examples from earlier periods, to display his structural examination of landscape and of elements within it.

Skinner’s works shift subtly between abstract and representational, but have a constant underpinning of structure and system. They appear to reference the physical world of landscape – rain, water, stone, sky etc. Through these pictorial constructs the work engages in a complex debate between the photographic and painterly, derived from close attention to lens originated images and optical effect and by employing a knowing negotiation between surface and substance within both the image and its materiality.

An illustrated monograph edited by Katharine Meynell with essays by Louisa Minkin (artist & subject leader BA Painting at Camberwell College of Art) and Andrea Phillips (art historian & assistant director MA Curating at Goldsmiths College) was published to coincide with this exhibition. Copies are still available from Standpoint Gallery at £5.00 + p&p.