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LIAM GERRARD

Cruel Bloom II

Archive exhibition
14 July - 9 August 2020
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Liam Gerrard Untitled (small red and yellow), 2019 charcoal and pan pastel on paper 49.0 x 35.5 cm
Liam Gerrard
Untitled (small red and yellow), 2019
charcoal and pan pastel on paper
49.0 x 35.5 cm
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Liam Gerrard’s drawings lie in continual juxtaposition; ominous and familiar, terrifying but beautiful, wild yet meticulously captured on paper. Gerrard’s ability to both entice and disturb at once has continually informed the artist’s practice.

Cruel Bloom II is a continuation of Gerrard's 2019 exhibition and sees the artist chronicle hydrangeas at various stages of their life cycle starting at full bloom, rich in both colour and life. Slowly, Gerrard depicts the petals gracefully starting to curl with age as they eventually disintegrate into delicate skeletons adorned with cobwebs. Like much of Gerrard’s works, the hydrangeas manifest both beauty and decay, acting as a reminder of the temporality of existence and exhibiting the beauty of time passing.

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