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Chorus: Geoff Uglow
Geoff Uglow’s paintings are at once visceral and mesmeric. Layered deep into the sculptural oils is a profound sense of urgency, a physical compulsion to convey the ineludibly subjective human experience of place and of nature. His burning, vital brushstrokes exert a hypnotic effect, themselves echoing that driving impulse; densely, masterfully applied, they dance with abstraction but, ultimately, are too rooted in the world to cross the Rubicon into it.
Thematically, bestriding reality and abstraction feels appropriate. Uglow’s concerns, after all, are earthly ones. They sit within one another like nesting dolls: complex, cyclical nature; what it is to be human; and the behaviour of the medium via which he accesses the emotion of experience – the paint itself and exploring the outermost possibilities of what it can do. In his work, the material is indistinguishable from the subject matter; deeply cerebral and physical, Uglow’s are not polite works to be ‘handled with care.’ They are physical, tactile entities that must be stretched and manipulated – sometimes until the artist’s fingers are raw.
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97 New Bond Street, London, 4 - 31 May 2022
