Emergent View — briony anderson

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Paintings/
Emergent View

^{From a Fall of Water, oil on mount board, 21 x 14.5 cm. Private collection}

^{A Study for Followers (2), oil on mount board, 21.5 x 16 cm. Private collection}

^{A Study for Followers (1), oil on mount board, 21.5 x 16 cm. Private collection}

^{Background Study, oil on canvas, 14 x 18 cm. Private collection (installation view)}

^{From a Set of Similar Scenes, 2012, oil on mount board, 14.5 x 21 cm. Private collection}

^{From a Figural Procession (1), oil on mount board, 11.5 x 16 cm. Private collection}

^{From a Figural Procession (2), oil on mount board, 11.5 x 16 cm. Private collection}

^{From An Outdoor Still Life, oil on mount board, 12.5 x 16.5 cm}

^{Variation of a Familiar Scene, oil on canvas, 37 x 37 cm}

^{Variant View (1), oil on canvas, 79 x 98 cm}

^{Variant View (Suddenly now blurs), oil on canvas, 70 x 96 cm}

^{Merging, or Melding, Swimming Together, oil on canvas, 66 x 84 cm}

A body of work which takes historical northern European landscape painting as its starting point, from which figures, or signs of human presence are erased. Larger works explore notions of 'void' and 'nothingness' through the removal of the figures and their slipping into indistinctiveness. They don’t give way to nothingness though because of their titles and reference to other works, and they still suggest land. They ask how little information is needed to suggest a landscape.

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