Abstract
Psychobotanical was the name of my solo exhibition at Matt's Gallery (London). Newly commissioned work included 3 enamel and gloss paintings, 2 screenprints, and a kinetic sculpture Untitled (Rubber Plant) which formed the centrepiece for the exhibition. The kinetic work was funded by money received from an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice award, constituting the first output in a 10 month kinetic sculpture development project. It follows earlier 'rubber plant' works but at a more ambitious scale.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Event | exhibition; 2019-06-08; 2019-06-30 - Matt's Gallery Duration: 8 Jun 2019 → 30 Jun 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Media: VariousReviews: http://garagelandmagazine.blogspot.com/2019/06/psychobotanical.html
Impact: The exhibition was reviewed in the online art journals Garageland and This Is Tomorrow:
http://garagelandmagazine.blogspot.com/2019/06/psychobotanical.html
http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/dean-kenning-psychobotanical
An essay by the art theorist and philosopher John Roberts called 'Dean Kenning's Kinetics' was commissioned by the gallery and printed on the facing side of a colour poster available to the public. Essay available to read here:
https://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/kenning/KenningPoster.pdf
I discussed this work and other work in the exhibition at my Stroud Valley Arts talk 'Vitalism and the Machine' on 9 August 2019. Available to view here:
https://88invisiblemirrors.wordpress.com/2019/09/19/vitalism-and-the-machine/
I was subsequently asked by Matt's Gallery to make a work for the gallery's 40th anniversary fundraising event at their new exhibition space in Nine Elms on 24 Sept 2019. I made a miniture kinetic work in the Untitled (Rubber Plant) series, again a breakthrough for the development of my work.
Keywords
- Art and design
