7 September - 1 October 2016 www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/PeterGreen
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Peter Green, 2016, Photograph: Allun Callender
The Scottish Gallery is delighted
to present the exhibition The Workmanship of Uncertainty, the Gallery’s first solo exhibition on the work of Peter Green. This exhibition, which is a collaboration with St. Jude’s, celebrates the art of a major, yet overlooked figure of 20th century British art. The work of printmaker Peter Green has been known within printmaking and educational circles for decades; he was elected as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1958 and awarded an OBE for Services to Art and Art Education in 1988. Now in his 80s, and as productive and prolific as ever, this exhibition acts as a celebration of this remarkable artist and offers the unique opportunity to view a plethora of works dating back to the 1960s. Peter Green studied at Brighton College of Art and the Institute of Education University of London. Having qualified as a teacher, he initially taught at a secondary school in East London where he established a thriving school printing press, producing small books and original prints. In the early 1960s the director of London Graphics Arts (also known as The London Arts Group), Eugene Schuster, recruited Peter who joined an impressive list of young printmakers. Schuster held an extensive range of prints by European Modern masters (including Picasso and Matisse) and commissioned new editions from young contemporary artists for placing primarily in public buildings across Europe and North America. Peter produced a number of large plywood block prints, printed without a press, with most of the colour being applied directly using paper stencils – a method that the artist uses to this day.
Strange Forest, 1961, linocut, 81 x 55 cms, edition 7 of 12
Blue Forest, 1962, linocut, 83.5 x 60.5 cms, edition 5 of 15
Red Night, 1963, linocut, 66 x 92 cms, edition 1 of 10
Night White Silver, 1966, woodcut & stencil, 81 x 53 cms, Artist Proof
Sea Side Dream, 1966, woodcut & stencil, 84 x 52 cms, edition 3 of 20
Cumberland Blue, 1967 woodcut & stencil, 65 x 48 cms, Artist Proof
August Rose, 1967 woodcut & plasticine, 68 x 45 cms, edition 7 of 20
Astral Form, 1969 woodcut & stencil, 62 x 38.5 cms, Artists Proof
Marine Night 1, 1969 woodcut, 66 x 47 cms, Artist Proof
Night Shore 1, 1993 linocut & stencil, 46 x 37 cms, edition 4 of 12
Wind Landscape, 1998 linocut, 37 x 49.5 cms, edition 4 of 12
Reflected Landscape Form, 1999 linocut & stencil, 39 x 42 cms, edition 14 of 15
Night Shore 2, 1999 linocut & stencil, 48 x 39 cms, edition 6 of 12
Night Totems, 2000 linocut, 43 x 44 cms, edition 13 of 20
Night River Form, 2014 woodcut & stencil, 30 x 33 cms, edition of 10
Thorn Beacon, 2015 woodcut & stencil, 39 x 39 cms, edition of 8
Harvest Nightscape, 2015 woodcut & stencil, 36 x 39 cms, edition of 8
Night Rock Form, 2015 woodcut & stencil, 33 x 33 cms, edition of 8
Red Flame Form, 2016 woodcut & stencil, 35 x 29 cms, edition of 8
Mountain Structure, 2016, woodcut & stencil, 32 x 26 cms, edition of 8
Red Night Rose, 2016 woodcut & stencil, 37 x 31.5 cms, edition of 6
Evening Tower, 2016 woodcut & stencil, 28 x 32 cms, edition of 8
Yellow Rock Field, 2016 woodcut & stencil, 26 x 31 cms, edition of 8
Winterland Form, 2016 woodcut & stencil, 39 x 40 cms, edition of 8
Coast Sentinel, 2016 woodcut & stencil, 33 x 33 cms, edition of 8
Red Evening Sea, 2016 woodcut & stencil, 29 x 34 cms, edition of 8
BOOK LAUNCH This exhibition coincides with the launch of the first monograph written by Nathaniel Hepburn which traces Green’s work from his earliest influences through to the most recent works to emerge from his studio. Always reluctant to call himself an artist, preferring to employ the terms printmaker and teacher, this important exhibition & book published by Random Spectacular (the publishing imprint of design collective/gallery St. Jude’s), positions Peter Green firmly within the canon of mid to late 20th century visual artists with a continuing influence on subsequent generations of printmakers.
Peter Green: The Workmanship of Uncertainty Nathaniel Hepburn Content: 108 text pages plus covers (soft back) featuring over 80 images of Peter’s prints, paintings and watercolours. Size: 245mm x 190mm, £19.95