Page 8 - Summer Readings

Michael Ginsborg
Michael Ginsborg

We are excited to now present previously unseen collage works from the 2021
Encounter series for this ‘Summer Reading’.

The continuity of Ginsborg’s practice has recently been highlighted by
Manchester Art Gallery’s display of his 1967 canvas Her Day at Sneaker’s Creek
as part of their Room to Breathe programme. Our own paths came together at
his lauded 1980 Acme Gallery, London, solo show, from which several paintings
are now in public collections. There followed a series of exhibitions and wall-
piece commissions through our working together over the following 25 years.

Here showing is the key 1987–88 Painting from Writing–which encompasse his
worlds of painting and drawing so linking it with the present. The strong graphic
message, much like a musical score, extends to the 2021 Encounter series which
harnesses constructivist and ‘systems’ principles with deft and subtly colourful
juxtapositions of printouts and cuttings from his extensive collection.

Rebecca Fortnum wrote of his 2020 Field Notes series:
‘[They] . . . appear to take enormous pleasure in the possibilities and contradic -
tions that they present. They pose a puzzle–how can something so self-
contained be so expansive? They are serious yet playful, slight yet profound,
formal yet narrative, matter of fact yet full of reference, they are put to work
yet have nothing to do . . . ’ (Benjamin Rhodes Arts publication, 2022).