We should do this, maybe not every day, more often than not though, there can never be too much art on these pages. As Sean Scully once said, art is a positive force for good, well he said something like that (I rather like what Sean Scully has to say about art most of the time).
So then, a simple thing, just an almost daily slice of the art posted (no way am I committing to doing it every day, I’m busy making art). Some days it might be a piece of art from someone we’ve been regularly covering on the pages (and maybe working with in terms of Cultivate), other days it might be something by an (almost) household name like Sean Scully, on other days it might be a piece of art by someone who work we hadn’t know until the day we posted it, Today we have a piece, a new painting that emerged during the political turmoil or maybe the positive evolution of it all on the day after Midsummer Solstice here in the UK…
Madeleine Strindberg has a rather nail-on-the-head way of capturing the moment with paint as well as with the energetic way she applies it. We have no idea how big or small this new painting is but whatever the physical size of Departure, it feels like a big painting. All of her paintings feel like big paintings, this one painted on the day KeIr Starmer has resigned as leader of the Labour Party and in doing so stepped down as British Prime Minister.
Madeleine Strindberg (born 1955) is an award-winning, German-born contemporary artist who has lived and worked in London since the last century. She is, so it says here, “highly acclaimed for her complex, large-scale abstract paintings and multimedia installations that explore themes of human form, political conflict, and bodily abstraction. Strindberg famously became the first entirely non-representational painter to serve as Artist-in-Residence at the National Gallery, London”.
Madeleine has been showing with Cultivate, both in our physical shows and our online shows since something like 2011, she is as prolific as ever and I hope she deosn’t mind us saying that the work she is producing now as she enters her Seventies is as powerful as anything she has painted
Major Career Awards & Residencies
Jerwood Painting Prize: Won the highly influential award in 1998.
National Gallery Residency: Served as Artist-in-Residence from 1988 to 1989.
Abbey Award in Painting: Awarded by the British School at Rome in 1996.
Barclays Bank Award: Received in 1985, resulting in a solo show at the Warwick Arts Trust.
GLC Peace Prize: Awarded in 1989.
Shortlists: Shortlisted for the John Moore’s Painting Prize (1997) and the Charles Wollaston Award at the Royal Academy (2000)
Previously on these pages…
Cultivate Presents Madeleine Strindberg – an online art exhibition…
Cultivate presents Mixtape No.7 – an online art exhibition…
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