Marginals is an exhibition of recent work by Philip Cole and Lloyd Durling at Project78 Gallery 78 Norman Road. St Leonards on Sea. The gallery is open each week from Wednesday to Saturday (11.00am-5.00pm) and the exhibition continues through christmas until the 7th January.
Project 78 Gallery writes …
Philip Cole and Lloyd Durling have both had one person exhibitions at Project 78 in the past respectively. Cole lives and works in Brighton, Durling lives and works in London and they had not met before coming together to make this exhibition. Upon observing both of their practises we felt that it would be interesting to bring together two painters working in the broad field of abstraction and see what might happen … Marginals is the result.
The exhibition has an uncertain delight about it on first encounter. The two processes appearing at first very different and incongruous. Perhaps the similarities and differences in the works can be understood in terms of the different approaches of each artist. Durling’s paintings are a response to walking in the built and the natural environment – the interstices of life, the edgelands, the marginal areas. Cole’s interest has been in the printing registration marks and the packaging in which we find the things we buy because we need to, and we want to. These things may be peripheral but actually their importance lies in what clues they give about the way life is at the moment in this Anthropocene age.
The synergy and energy of the curation is evident and does not feel forced. There is a lightness to it. There is nothing final about the context of what questions might be asked here between the two.