WHAT SHALL WE DO TOMORROW?

Glad works figuratively, often from photographs or found images, using disrupted surfaces and textures built up with oil paint, sand, pebbles, varnish, graphite and other materials. His work includes landscape, portraiture and abstraction and his themes range from personal biographic subject matter to current political and world news stories. Come and see!

Glad writes: “The work in this exhibition, ‘What shall we do tomorrow’, explores how we live with images both worn out and potent. I am at once driven by an amnesic compulsion (a drive towards loss and annihilation of memory) to archive and aestheticise images, while equally coveting their ability to prick, puncture and cut through the dispassionate collecting, which can yield moments of insight that extend knowledge. While painting, I have authorship of this personal, political, ethical, aesthetic and embodied experience. It occurs between archiving and forgetting, between material and signification, between interiority and exteriority. These re-acquaintances with images are critical to the formulation of ‘self’.

Glad Fryer has been painting since he was a teenager. He has had a studio practice since 1998 and originally moved to Devon to do a Fine Art degree at Dartington College of Arts, followed by a Phd in Painting completed in 2007. Since then, he has been a University Lecturer in Fine Art and currently teaches on the Fine Art course in Falmouth. He has his studio in Buckfastleigh, Devon, where he lives with his partner and their children. Glad has exhibited his work in various solo and group shows in the UK and in Europe – more details on his website. www.gladfryer.co.uk