F ebruary, 2014. Three months of grey, biblical rains were coming to an end and in the South Cloister, at least, the world was colour. The installing of the Upper School Art Exhibition (for just a single night’s private view) was art itself: vertiginously stacked boxes, rhapsodic blue/ orange strings, suggestive plaster/ply moulds and a bonanza of shapely canvases – film stills, acrylics, water-colours, oils, etchings – all had been expertly and lengthily coordinated into a rapt synthesis of complementary textures. The walking tour, taking a good hour or so, offered plenty to stimulate both sense and sensibility, and but for the absence of arty canapés one could have imagined oneself in the bohemian East End. It couldn’t have been more interesting, in fact. Here were Rothko and Hopper, Auerbach and Giacometti, Jay DeFeo and Henry Moore, yet the names were different: Moreno and Mortiboys, Kim, Lucas Morel and Robbie Crace. Thus, the
MR RICHARD SUTTON REVIEWS, MODIFIES AND REFINES THE UPPER SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION.
Clockwise from left: Kevin Kim, Year 12. Nylon string sculpture Will Milton, Year 12. Oil on canvas Max Mortiboys, Year 13. Acrylic on canvas p o s i i v e S P A C E
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