Step Paintings by Basil Beattie
Hales Gallery is delighted to present Above and Below: Step Paintings 1990-2013, a solo show of works by British painter Basil Beattie. Beattie left the Royal Academy schools in 1961, when the trend in Britain was for American-influenced abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction. His initial works of the 1960s and early 70s absorbed these influences, but it was not long before Beattie abandoned a purely formal approach and...
Tom Price with Ancient Systems
Hales Gallery is delighted to announce Ancient Systems, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with sculptor Tom Price. Price’s works all share a fascination in body language, facial expression, and in turn, their ability to suggest a state of mind. His works are amalgamations of a wide range of influences found in the artist’s observations of individuals, invented and constructed with the help of people observed on the street,...