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Nick Dawes creates complex colour arrangements with fluid forms and thus pursues a new quality of painterly abstraction. The ostensibly impulsive painterly gestures of his paintings are, however, achieved by an exact plan that leaves almost nothing to chance. The artist distils abstract forms from the formal particularities of road signs or other sign-like quotidian objects, which he then captures as pencil drawings and transfers to the canvas with thinned poured oil paint. In Susanne Roewer’s works, glass joins silver-plated bronze to such an extent that the transparent glass corpus adapts to the solid metal and thus reflects on its own process of formation. The glass is blown in temperatures over 1000 °C and shaped on the bronze corpus, and in its amorphous structure adjusts to the metal.

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Exhibited Works

NICK DAWES

Map, 2018
Oil on canvas
210 x 285 cm | 82 2/3 x 112 1/4 in

NICK DAWES

Atlas, 2019
Oil on canvas
210 x 270 cm | 82 2/3 x 106 1/3 in

NICK DAWES

Untitled 8, 2019
Crayon on paper
23,5 x 32,5 cm | 9 1/4 x 12 3/4 in

SUSANNE ROEWER

The World upon your Shoulder, 2018
Glass, Alabaster
48 x 15 x 30 cm | 19 x 6 x 11 3/4 in
Unique

SUSANNE ROEWER

It no longer fits (I), 2019
Glass, gold, brass
140 x 45 x 45 cm | 55 x 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in
Unique

SUSANNE ROEWER

It no longer fits (II), 2019
Glass, gold, brass
159 x 45 x 45 cm | 62 2/3 x 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in
Unique

About the artists

Nick Dawes

NICK DAWES

Born 1969 in Johannesburg, South Africa
Lives and works in London, England

Nick Dawes studied at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology and graduated with a BA in Fine Arts at the Brighton Polytechnic. Within his colourfield canvases, the artist is striving for a new quality of painterly abstraction. His ability to control complex tonal arrangements and the juxtaposition of irregular shapes is what gives his works their unique and striking appeal. The unified flatness of his paintings, while remaining flat, also contrive to present us with various possibilities of distance - of nearness and of farness.
Susanne Roewer

SUSANNE ROEWER

Born 1971 in Bad Schlema, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

In the works of Susanne Roewer often two conflicting materials collide, forming a fragile new entity. Susanne Roewer’s sculptures in particular are rooted in her exploration of elementary materials, such as metal, stone or glass, combining figurative elements with an abstract form language. During the process of creation, the artist is frequently guided by the material and its specific qualities.