Exhibition Film: Euan Uglow - Video

In 1974 Catherine Lampert organised the first major touring retrospective of Euan Uglow’s work for the Arts Council of Great Britain. Fifty years on, Lampert has curated this exhibition to revisit some of the artist’s most important work and to mark the joint representation of the Estate of Euan Uglow by Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Frankie Rossi Art.

Uglow’s paintings are meticulously constructed. Their grand simplicity is underpinned by the artist’s rigorous methodology combining close observation, carefully controlled light conditions, and his notable use of plumb lines to accurately demarcate the subject on the canvas. The traces of this process are left visible on the surface of all Uglow’s pictures, each line and mark corresponding to a particular point in space.

Included in the exhibition are rare and exceptional masterpieces from public and private collections which reveal Uglow’s command of the nude. The privately owned Root Five Nude (1974-75) and The Diagonal (1971-77), and Curled Nude on a Stool (1982-83) lent by the museum Ferens Art Gallery, display the artist’s accomplished handling of the naked body as a formal problem.

‘Euan Uglow’
Until Friday 19 July 2024
38 Bury Street
St James’s
SW1Y 6BB

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Monday – Friday 10:00 – 18:00
Saturdays 11:00 – 17:00
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