The first solo exhibition in Scandinavia of Rupert Hartley’s series of paintings entitled INTER-SCENIC will be exhibited on the first floor of the gallery from May 12th - June 13th. You can view the complete Inter-Scenic digital exhibition catalogue below.

Listen to the recent Nordic Art Agency Podcast episode below where Rupert Hartley discusses his painting practice and the Inter - Scenic exhibition.

Inter-scenic - by British visual artist Rupert Hartley

In Rupert Hartley’s new paintings he expands on his previously formalistic approach, his repetitions of grids and colour more explicitly alluding to both architecture and landscape, offering the viewer both flat planes and vistas. He considers his paintings a distillation of what he calls ‘the simulated environments and psychogeographies’ of his local environments in the coastal town of Hove where he lives.

Originally painting squares was a way to see colours more clearly in the studio and to use up paints. The coloured squares have become central to his paintings in recent years. An overly familiar trope of art history, Rupert exploits this simplistic form as an open emblem, looking back at art history but also reflecting his own connections to social, environmental and architectural space.

Inter - grid No. 2

A constant in his work has been an exploration of architecture and city space, an interest he explored in the early 2000’s through walking and mapping art projects across city spaces, and now painting from a studio in Hove he finds connections in his daily use of the city informing how he defines the scale, surface and colour of his work.

The softest light imaginable

The exhibition will be open on the first floor of the gallery from 12 May to 13 June and a digital exhibition catalogue will be released the day of the Vernissage. Please contact the gallery to receive your preview copy of the Inter - scenic exhibition digital catalogue. Discover more about artist Rupert Hartley by visiting his Artist Page.