Dimensions: support: 264 x 283 mm
Copyright: © Robyn Denny | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Robyn Denny's "Abbey Wood No. I," a mixed media work. It feels almost like an urban landscape seen through a rain-streaked window. What stands out to you? Curator: It's that sense of fragmented reality, isn’t it? Denny's pulling apart the visual world, rearranging it like a memory. Do you see how the lettering peeks through? It's not just about shapes; it's about the echoes of the everyday. Editor: So, it’s like finding meaning in the chaos? Curator: Precisely! It’s a dance between order and disorder. It whispers of city life without showing us a single building. A feeling, rather than a picture. Editor: That's fascinating. I'll never look at abstract art the same way! Curator: Hopefully, you’ll approach everything with new eyes now.
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In these sketches for larger-scale works and mosaic murals, Robyn Denny explores abstraction alongside recognisable forms. Fragmented letters, words, and whole phrases act as symbolic elements that serve both as visual ‘bait’ and, in Denny’s words, ‘a literary key ... to lure the eye out of the everyday world and into the world of the painting’. His use of incomplete symbols and layered, stencilled compositions plays on the tension between legibility and abstraction. Gallery label, March 2025
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