THE PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE

The Problem with People is an exhibition of 18 painters, focusing on different ways that artists deal with the figure in painting today. The somewhat provocative title refers to the difficulties and challenges often associated with the figure in painting, both in a literal or representational sense, but also in philosophical, ethical and material terms. 

The idea of (the) painting – which is not a ‘person’ – performs as a kind of surrogate or stand in for the body. This enables artists to see and re-see themselves through painting, be it through locating the figure inside pictorial space, emphasising the figure beyond the stretcher, notions of the figure with or without a body, the figure as gesture, a shape, a place, an outline, an anthropomorphic object, or through material itself. 

Exhibiting artists:

Reece Adair @reeces.peeces__ 

Keith Ashcroft @keithashcroft 

David Ballantyne @cobwebeyes 

Andrew Bracey @darthbracey 

Kate Dunn @bellissi.mama 

Simon Foxall @simon_foxall 

David Gledhill @davidgledhillartist 

Gareth Griffith @griffith.gareth 

Mary Lou Lawless-Gill @maryloulawlessgill 

Andrea Medjesi-Jones @andrea.medjesijones 

Dougal McKenzie @imagehalflife 

Paula Newton @paulanewton9 

Alex Roberts @alexroberts975 

Wayne Robinson #waynerobinson 

Luke Skiffington @luke_skiffington 

Geraldine Swayne @geraldineswayne

Michael Stubbs @stubbs3198 

Mikey Thomas @mikey_c_thomas 

Curated by @keithashcroft 

Oceans Apart

24-26 King St

Salford

M3 7DG 

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