The Vast and Unknowable Universe

Date: January 2014
Exhibition/Show Type: Solo
Media: Painting

Exhibition Description

An exhibition or work by Will Teather - "selected artworks from the last 5 years, including a number of major new paintings being exhibited for the first time"

“It is theatre, storytelling and art, woven into a single painting.” Ruby Ormerod, Green
Pebble Publishing

British artist Will Teather has received international recognition for his powerful images that combine a unique imagination with a mastery of traditional skills.

The artist’s paintings and drawings often depict curious characters caught up in extraordinary situations. Lifting motifs from diverse sources such as Flemish still life, baroque art and Weimar painters, the artist enters into direct conversation with the history of painting with the aim of bringing some new ideas to the table.

In Teather’s own words:

“In the spirit of magical-realist fiction, the storytelling explores the indefinite space between reality and fiction, horror and humour, fantasy and fact. Vaudevillian characters inhabit a
play without beginning or end, where carnival and folk traditions are pastiched together into simulacrum and spectacle. As with Angela Carter’s novels, the carnivalesque elements of transgression and excess allow illusion to work and the improbable to become possible.”

“Teather’s work is arresting, heart-stopping and exquisitely executed. ” Laura Williams, Art historian, Art 1821

“A leading UK artist.” Press and Journal, Scotland