Alice Gorton
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The Barbican, Alice Gorton

The Barbican

Mixed Media on Canvas
150 x 270 cm
SOLD

This piece was made as an addition to the City Lights Series, inspired by long exposure photography during twilight hours. The main structural element is a reference to The Barbican in London, creating a strong brutalist line, I wanted to use the angles of this iconic building to offset and cut through the fluidity of the ink washes, that capture the undulating light of dusk. The bright artificial lights illuminate the night and change as you walk around the piece to show the ephemeral quality that this time of night has. My focus was to capture the exciting and awe- inspiring nature of the city as well as a slight uneasiness of the approaching night.


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'The Barbican' hung in London.
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  • Home
  • About
  • Exhibtions
    • Current Exhibtions
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Photos of Exhibitions
  • Rural Series
    • April
    • Peony Explosion
    • Patchwork
    • Avon
    • Embankment
    • Bluebells 2
    • Bluebells
    • Ginkgo Striation
    • Ginkgo
    • Ginkgo Leaf
    • Ginkgo Square
    • Gingko 2
    • Ginkgo Gold
    • Rumble 2
    • Rumble
    • Metamorphosis
    • Lush
    • A New Year
    • The Thicket
    • The Last Lily
    • Cherry Blossom
    • Larch 3
    • Larch 2
    • Larch
    • Night Fall
    • Lanterns
    • Secret Garden
  • Travel Series
    • Aberystwyth Rocks
    • Welsh Mountains
    • Edinburgh Skies
    • Torrent
    • Waterfall
    • It's Pronounced Foy
    • Malta
    • Cyprus
    • Bali
    • Everyone Still Calls It Saigon
    • Llandudno
    • The Bridge, NC
    • Oslo
    • Brighton
    • Edinburgh
    • VIA
    • Gambia Thunderstorm
  • Smoke Series
    • Pollen
    • Swoop
    • Crystal Smoke
    • Breath
    • At This Point In Time
    • Smoke Above
    • Steel Tempering
    • Smoke & Embers
    • Smoke
    • Fire & Smoke
    • Fire & Smoke 2
    • Fire & Smoke 3
    • Fire & Smoke 4
  • Commissions
    • Boundless
    • Every Drop Counts
    • Edvin Loach Church
    • Durham
    • The Barbican
    • Some Corner
  • City Lights Series
    • Finite
    • Strobe
    • Drift
    • Nocturnal
    • Lightwave
    • Oil Slick
    • Reflection
    • Viridescent
    • Sparked
    • Arc
    • Flare
    • Glare
    • The Gloaming
  • Contact Info.
  • Urban Series
    • M6
    • Sodium
    • Neon
    • Fluoresce
  • Rural Series 2
    • Dappled
    • Tulip Memories
    • 3 Day Summer
    • Flourish
    • Submerged
    • Scoured
    • Sugars
    • Norfolk
    • Flush
    • Coronation Wood
    • Verglas
    • Niveous
    • Canopy
    • Blackberries