New Viewings #46

Curated by Barbara Thumm

New Viewings \ New Viewings #46

Jeffrey and David

Jeffrey Bligh is the birth name of artist and curator David Thorp. Jeffrey and David have been exploring their relationship through a personal archive that results in series of works that are a developing record of fleeting encounters and intense moments that convey memory of place and time enabling him to articulate and understand the complex personal narratives that underpin his lived experience and the processes and effects of ageing.

Bligh’s correlations between image and indecipherable text are a comment on the unreliability of memory and the partiality of language. He often prints photographs many years after they were first taken contrasting memory with the present. The paintings and photographs form a kind of absurd autobiography of correlations forming layered metaphorical and actual textures that record and re-evaluate memories. A personal hauntology of fleeting encounters and intense moments.

Jeffrey Bligh’s use of words and poems are part of an exploratory journey. The images arouse the memory and create the texts inwardly. His indecipherable words are the sound of internal speech vibrations made visible as they dictate how the final image appears. The cycle of life experience and creation doubles up as a referential dialogue between David and Jeffrey. A conceptual journey through fragments of captured time that spans over forty years.

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Works David Thorp

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David Thorp

#1 (1982 - 2022)
From the series: Surprise
23 x 35 cm
1.500 EUR incl. VAT
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David Thorp

#2 (1982 - 2022)
From the series: Surprise
23 x 35 cm
1.500 EUR incl. VAT
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David Thorp

#3 (1982 - 2022)
From the series: Surprise
23 x 35 cm
1.500 EUR incl. VAT
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David Thorp

#4 (1982 - 2022)
From the series: Surprise
23 x 35 cm
1.500 EUR incl. VAT
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David Thorp

Days Road (1982 - 2022)
Acrylic and collage on canvas
100 x 150 cm
1.500 EUR incl. VAT
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David Thorp

There at last (2022)
Acrylic and collage on canvas
150 x 100 cm
3.570 EUR incl. VAT
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David Thorp

The oldest man of all (2022)
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 100 cm
3.570 EUR incl. VAT
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David Thorp

Formality (1982 - 2022)
Acrylic and collage on canvas
150 x 100 cm
3.570 EUR incl. VAT
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David Thorp

Days Road (1982 - 2022)
Acrylic and collage on canvas
100 x 150 cm
3.570 EUR incl. VAT
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