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Sarah Medway – The River Series

Sarah Medway,  Sue Hubbard,  Anna McNay

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English
Anomie Publishing
01 July 2022
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Oils; Individual artists, art monographs
This, London-based painter Sarah Medway's second publication from Anomie Publishing, is devoted to the subject of the River Thames. The publication presents a series of twenty-eight oil paintings created in Medway's canal-side studio in central London during the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020-21.

The Thames is beautiful, terrifying, powerful, alluring and dangerous. Medway captures the river's eclectic dynamics, rhythms and energy through the language of abstract painting, the ripples, bubbles, eddies and currents, the reflections and refractions denoted through sinuous lines, ellipses and spots, dots and loops, flecks and swirls. Referencing twentieth-century modernist movements such as De Stijl, Tachisme and post-war American Abstract Expressionism, Medway's own, lyrical, often graphic approach to painting the Thames results in a vivid interplay between pattern and colour. The paintings have overt musical resonances – tempo, rhythm and dynamics as might be encountered in an orchestral score. Like the river, the paintings are at times joyous and playful, at other times brooding and menacing, yet always moving, in flux, traveling onwards towards the sea.

An introductory text by critic and writer Sue Hubbard takes readers through the series, exploring how the paintings engage with the qualities and complexities of the river. An in-conversation between Medway and writer, editor and curator Anna McNay provides insight into the artist's life and work, discussing the processes by which Medway makes her paintings and the thinking behind them. Designed and produced by Peter B. Willberg, this foil-blocked, cloth-bound hardback publication with a special dustjacket also features an illustrated chronology documenting Medway's life and career.

Sarah Medway (b.1955, Seaton Carew, UK) is a painter based in London. As well as group exhibitions at institutions such as Tate Britain, the Whitechapel, the Royal Academy, the World Trade Center and Austin Museum of Art, Medway's solo shows include Flowers East, London, Chelsea Hotel, New York, Kienbaum Gallery, Frankfurt, The Mandalai, Thailand, and Atelier Gallery, Spain. She has works in many public, private and corporate collections in the UK, US, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Hong Kong and Thailand.

AUTHORS: Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, novelist, award-winning poet, lecturer and broadcaster. She has written for publications including Time Out, The Independent, The New Statesman, The Times, The Guardian, Apollo, Tate and RA, the Royal Academy magazine.

Anna McNay is a writer, editor, curator and researcher based in Hitchin, UK. She studied history of art at Birkbeck, University of London. Former Assistant Editor of Art Quarterly, the magazine of Art Fund, McNay has written for The Guardian, Elephant Magazine, The Burlington Magazine, RA magazine, and regularly contributes to Studio International.

58 illustrations
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Imprint:   Anomie Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 260mm,  Width: 245mm, 
ISBN:   9781910221303
ISBN 10:   1910221309
Pages:   88
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Sarah Medway is a painter based in London. As well as group exhibitions at institutions such as Tate Britain, the Whitechapel, the Royal Academy, the World Trade Center and Austin Museum of Art, Medway’s solo shows include Flowers East, London, Chelsea Hotel, New York, Kienbaum Gallery, Frankfurt, The Mandalai, Thailand, and Atelier Gallery, Spain. Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, novelist, award-winning poet, lecturer and broadcaster. She has written for publications including Time Out, The Independent, The New Statesman, The Times, The Guardian, Apollo, Tate and RA, the Royal Academy magazine. Anna McNay is a writer, editor, curator and researcher based in Hitchin, UK. She studied history of art at Birkbeck, University of London. Former Assistant Editor of Art Quarterly, the magazine of Art Fund, McNay has written for The Guardian, Elephant Magazine, The Burlington Magazine, RA magazine, and regularly contributes to Studio International.

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