In Dialogue 4. Impossible Forms

27 – 30 May | Opening Event Thursday 26 May, 6 - 8pm

Fred Baier (b. 1949) Furniture
Willard Boepple (b. 1945) Screen-prints in collaboration with Kip Gresham

Fred Baier Tetrahedon/Toroid Table 1995 English Oak, MDF, polyester lacquer, mica enamel 50 x 50cm

Fred Baier has built an internationally recognised career over 40 years in furniture design that draws on his interest in geometry and English industrial history. A wealth of practical making experience underpins the work, but it is his ability to harness computing as an inspirational design tool that has made him a leader in the field. From the early 1980s (using period modelling programmes such as VAMP) he has used the computer to, as Peter Dormer writes, 'turn up three-dimensional forms from the seashore of mathematics.’ Although he ‘still finds a pencil to be the quickest route from brain to image’ the imagined forms are developed with online tools, before being returned to be further developed, and fabricated, meticulously, in the analogue world. His movement between these on and offline worlds seems to mirror the critical interface between imagination and practice so fundamental to the artist’s studio. As he says: 'The mind makes making possible but making opens the mind.'

Willard Boepple Barn Yellow 2 2019 86x69 Screenprint

American sculptor, Willard Boepple was introduced to printmaking in 2004 by Kip Gresham at the Print Studio, Cambridge following a period spent living and working in London, experimenting with carved and assembled resin sculptures. Over the intervening twenty years, this collaboration has resulted in some of the most intriguing contemporary examples of the art of printmaking. ‘They invite,’ as critic David Cohen comments ‘the imagination to play’. In a sequence of themes and variations, the artist ‘builds form with colour’ through layering stencils and screens - all enabled by the energy and knowledge of Gresham. The resulting works present the viewer with constantly shifting planes of colour, which, akin to the experience of listening to a musical improvisation, encourages the mind to unfold the patterns and forms with close attention.

Please join us on Thursday 26th May between 6 - 8pm for the opening of In Dialogue 4. Impossible Forms

Exhibition opening times:

Friday: 12 - 7pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11am - 5pm
Monday: by appointment