Gavin Hurley | The Good Oil podcast

Gavin Hurley speaks with Graeme Douglas on The Good Oil podcast ahead of our new exhibition opening 28 August at Melanie Roger Gallery.

Listen here - https://rss.com/podcasts/thegoodoil/1616881/

You’ll hear Gavin talk about his inability to paint portraits of any living subjects, a misguided aspiration to be more business like (that nevertheless lead to a great body of work), the close and useful relationship between collage and painting in his practice, his love of old books and their paper stocks as reference and material, how mutton chop sideburns and beards make for great shapes to paint, and how revisiting works in preparation for a show at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery makes him realise how different life was when he painted them.

A group exhibition of new work by Gavin Hurley, Emma Fitts and Martin Poppelwell opens next Wednesday evening 28 August, 5.30-7.30pm.

All works will be online this week and available to preview by appointment.  To register interest: info@melanierogergallery.com

 

Artist photography by Birgit Krippner.