The Estate of Edwin Tanner
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Edwin Tanner
Disconnected, c. 1960
oil and timber on canvas on board
117.50 x 133.50
unsigned
Edwin Tanner, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 12 - 30 November, 2002, no. 10
This work is one of the earliest to use collaged construction. Around 1960 the painted interior took on a literal third dimension, the figures becoming abstracted and stylised and placed in low relief boxes. He also worked with incising marks, hieroglyphs (call them what you will) into the surface: mostly he based them on logical or mathematical symbols but in this example he has used steel punches to butt in the numbers. The title is partly ironic: these numbers are not always clearly connected but patterns do emerge with a longer look.
Further works by the Artist
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.