Exhibitions
PLACE - solo exhibition
Place Presents New And Recent Large-Scale Paintings By British Artist Tim Fowler. The Show Centres On Location And Placement—How Space, Objects, And Viewers Interact Through Colour, Form, And Composition.
The Exhibition Includes Works From His Recent Show The Ground And Looks At Fowler’s Bajan Heritage Through A Botanical Lens. It Features Traditional And Medicinal Plants Used By The People Of Barbados Throughout History, Offering A Botanical Narrative That Connects Memory, Landscape, And Cultural Practice.
Place Also Continues Fowler’s Flower Vase Series, Focusing On His Abstract Arrangement Of Flowers. These Pieces Often Dissect Blooms With Rigid Boxes And Lines, Creating A Conversation Between Organic Growth And Geometric Structure.
A New Part Of The Show Looks At The Bajan Jockeys Of Pebble’s Beach, Barbados. The Daily Routine Of Young Local Men Leading The Horses To The Sea And Washing Them At Sunrise Anchors The Exhibition In A Sense Of Place And Community Life, Viewed Through Fowler’s Distinctive Palette.
Across Place, Fowler’s Ongoing Interests—Colour, Atmosphere, And Balance—Are Clear. His Strong, Recognisable Hues Are Used Thoughtfully To Create Harmony Within Each Painting And Across The Whole Collection. The Result Is A Grounded, Thoughtful Exploration Of Place, Memory, And Colour.
The Ground
Attenborough Arts Centre will present a major solo exhibition by Leicester artist Tim Fowler this autumn.
Tim Fowler is an artist best known for his immediately recognisable paintings that feature a palette of extremely bright and intense colours. He works intuitively, combining oil and acrylic with spray paint, enamel, graffiti inks, creating layered compositions that fizz with energy.
This exhibition, entitled ‘The Ground’, after the name that many Bajans give to their gardens, will be Tim’s largest solo show to date and a personal exploration of the artist’s Bajan heritage, bringing together key pieces from an ongoing body of work that began in 2020. Inspired by the results of a DNA test, Tim started researching his family history, and then became fascinated by plants that have made a migratory journey similar to his own DNA: from West Africa via the Caribbean to the UK. Tim says:
‘It is important to me that this exhibition comes from a place of learning and represents both the darker colonial history of the journey that my DNA has taken, as well as the cultural beauty expressed and mirrored in the plants that I paint.’
The Botanical City
This new collection of richly coloured works was inspired by the orchids at Kew Gardens as well as the artist’s travels to the tropical rainforests of Thailand and botanical gardens of Barbados.