Concrete Ball (2012)

Phoebe Unwin

acrylic, powder pastel and acrylic pumice gel on canvas

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Acrylic pumice gel, Pastel, Canvas, Acrylic

Dimensions:

70.3 x 80.5 cm

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society in honour of Paul Hobson (Director, Contemporary Art Society, 2007-2013), 2013

Scheme:

Fine Art Acquisition Scheme (2008-)

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, in honour of Paul Hobson (Director, Contemporary Art Society, 2007-2013), 2013; presented to Southampton City Art Gallery, 2013

Relationship:

Paul Hobson Southampton City Art Gallery

Concrete Ball comes from a body of work focused on material relationship to image within painting, where the material itself is part of the subject of the painting. The title describes both the physicality of the painting and also what is pictured. In her words “I was interested in capturing a sensation of conflict: between lightness and heaviness, stillness and movement.” The concrete like effect is made with an artist’ acrylic medium called Pumice Gel. The washes are a combination of acrylic and poster pastel. As well as a contrast through texture the painting tracks physical movement giving the sensation and visual description of the ball moving across the picture plane.

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