Exhibitions
Andrew Ensor - Castellum
5 - 21 April, 2011
Drawing inspiration from French chateaus and Japanese castles, Andrew Ensor has created a body of work that examines the symbolic power and status of architecture and the evolution of its meaning over time. By using only selected detail and presenting his subject with delicate and considered marks, Ensor is able to examine the passing of time, as these once powerful and forbidding structures are represented with decorative beauty.
"When I was a child I drew pictures, for as long as I can remember, from the time I could hold a crayon and drag it across a page it has been a part of me. When I was happy I would draw, when I was sad, angry, tired, bored or lost. It did not matter drawing was there long before I knew what art was. When I was in my early teens I would draw castles, turrets and towers. Escape to imagined kingdoms of my own design, I was never king though, perhaps an architect? These days when I think of castles, I think of ruined walls, crumbling with obsolescence and a bygone decadence. Steeped heavy in falsely remembered and forgotten histories, what's left when the violence of battle is gone? Someone has won, someone else has died yet beauty persists for its' own sake."
Castellum will show at the same time as Belladonna, a new solo exhibition by Beth Josey.