Exhibitions
Projects
Below you will find a selection of recently completed projects
Four Square Films
Four Square Fine Arts began working with Last Bus in 2008 to create a series of short interview based artist profiles. Four Square Films focus on artists in their own words and from the second film are supported by insightful footage of studio processes.
The aim of these films is to contribute to a broader understanding of contemporary art practice, whilst stimulating questions about the creative process, nurturing new dialogues between artists, students and art lovers.
We also look forward to including them as a valuable resource within our unfolding educational program. To find out more about this program click here.
About Four Square
Education
In 2009 we set out to develop a range of initiatives that went beyond the traditional exhibiting role of a commercial gallery. Supported and encouraged by the desire of many of the artists we represent, we believed it was time to share, engage and communicate in new ways with young people and adults. Four Square Films, our ongoing series of short documentaries exploring questions that drive the practice of artists working today, was a first step. However this has quickly grown to include workshops, scheduled artists talks, links with schools, and podcasts, so we've decided, the time is right to host these strands together on a sister site devoted to our educational work.
Visit our sister site: Four Square Arts Education
Contacting Four Square
Four Square Fine Arts, 5a, Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA
Tel: 01273 474005 Mob: 07742 659446 Please call to make an appointment to see work in stock.
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Duncan Bullen
Duncan Bullen studied Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University before graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1991 with a Rome Scholarship. He went onto be ‘artist in residence’ at the Eremo di Santa Caterina, a former hermitage on the Italian Island of Elba. He returned many times to this remote spot, which helped to shape an evolving abstract language in which colour is seen as an embodiment of light. The binding of colour and light, its fugitive and evanescent nature, its ability to emerge, dissolve and re-form on the eye is of particular interest.
During 2008 he moved away from the chromaticallydense, layered work of previous years and has been making a series of silverpoint and coloured pencil drawings on gessoed aluminum panels. Seen close up, one notices that the surfaces of the drawings are covered with a web of countless dots, but from a distance the evidence of their intensely concentrated manufacture dissolves into a shimmering surface which seems to hover on the edge of perception.
As Dr. Richard Davey suggests ‘Bullen’s drawings remind us, even when we have uncovered its mechanics and discovered its physical properties, colour still brings us back to wander in wonder and marvel in mystery. The coloured marks that activate these gesso surfaces generate instances of the insubstantial, the inexplicable, the mysterious…’