Fletcher Sibthorp Medici Gallery
Fletcher Sibthorp N E W WO R K S
5th - 23th September 2008
Medici Gallery 5 Cork Street London W1S 3LQ t: +44 (0)20 7495 2565 e: info@medicigallery.co.uk w: www.medicigallery.co.uk
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1992
‘In Motion’ - London, UK
2000
‘Quiet Space’ - The China Club, Hong Kong
2000
‘Flamenco I’ - Tokyo, Japan
2002
‘Flamenco II’ - Tokyo, Japan
2004
‘Flamenco III’ - Kyoto, Japan
2005
‘Passion’ - Studies in Dance - Cork Street Gallery, Cork Street, London,
2006
Selected Works - Medici Gallery, Cork Street, London Selected Works - Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Selected Works - Medici Gallery, Cork Street, London Selected Works - Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Selected Works - Medici Gallery, Cork Street, London
DEDICATION I would like to thank all the people who have been inspirational in my work. A special thanks to the staff and performers at The Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet School, without whose generous cooperation, artistic vision and accomplishment, many of these paintings would not have been realised.
INTRODUCTION This will be Fletcher’s third one man exhibition at the Medici Gallery since he began exhibiting with us in 2005. I have known Fletcher’s work for nearly twenty years and have watched his steady progression from clever, structured studies, which may have at times, suggested a slickness, move towards the now richer more complex paintings of his own maturity. In this exhibition we can also see his continued use of the ballet dancer as a subject for further exploration, placing the work further and further from the clichéd ballet genre. One can see and feel the tension and the angularity of these dancers. They are taut, athletic men and women practising in cool anonymous studios. The backgrounds to these paintings convey subtle plays with light and shade, forming abstract, geometric reliefs (12. Royal Ballet Student I ). His nude paintings, which are the core of this exhibition, show images which appear quite personal and intimate. These paintings reflect women who appear contemplative, suggestive of silence and introspection, withdrawn, while others are languid, abandoned, exotic ( 7. Lleryn II ) and all are juxtaposed with the drama of the taut nude, stretched and angular ( 4. Folding Chair No 512 after Uglow ). . It has been an interesting experience following Fletcher’s progress, and I think this exhibition certainly establishes him as a one of our leading contemporary, figurative painters. Jenny Kerr Medici Gallery 2008
(1.) Wishbone II Oil on canvas mounted on board 31 x 42 INCHES / 79 x 106 CM
(2.) The Chair Oil on canvas mounted on board 29 x 24 INCHES / 74 x 61 CM
(3.) Elements Oil on canvas mounted on board 25 x 22 INCHES / 63 x 56 CM
(4.) Folding Chair No 512 after Uglow Oil on canvas mounted on board 37 x 56 INCHES / 94 x 143 CM
(5.) Egg Chair Oil on board 46 x 37.5 INCHES / 116.5 x 95.5 CM
(6.) Wishbone Oil and pastel on board 41 x 31 INCHES / 104.5 x 78 CM
(7.) Lleryn II Mixed media on board 36 x 48 INCHES / 91.5 x 122 CM
(8.) Head VII Mixed Media and Gold Leaf on drawing film 13 x 10 INCHES / 34 x 25.5 CM
(9.) Chroma VIII Oil on canvas mounted on board 45.5 x 41 INCHES / 116 x 105 CM
(10.) Rhapsody II Oil and pastel on board 44 x 39 INCHES / 111.5 x 98.5 CM
(11.) Royal Ballet Student II Oil and pastel on board 48 x 38 INCHES / 122. x 96.5 CM
(12.) Royal Ballet Student I Oil and pastel on board 57 x 38.5 INCHES / 145 x 98 CM
Fletcher in the studio, 2007 Š NJW
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