Cliff Eyland: Abstract Paintings

Cliff Eyland’s small file-card sized paintings employ an encyclopedic range of media and subject matter divided into related “sets”. A selection from his set of abstract paintings will be displayed in the front alcove gallery. These works are not intended to satirize or even make reference to other abstract works; rather they should be read as a species of conceptual art. Nevertheless, through juxtaposition with the Bush works, comparisons in terms of scale, originality and ambition are interesting and inevitable.