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'Colourways & Motorways'

Vanessa Graham-Dixon
&
Toby Messer

4 April - 8 May

Private Private view: Monday 4 April 2005 : 6-8 PM

The Wine Gallery-49 Hollywood Rd, London SW10
contact Art 3 for more info on 020 7585 0645

Art 3 are pleased to present 'Colourways & Motorways' featuring Vanessa Graham-Dixon and Toby Messer. One is experimenting with abstraction and the relationships between colour, form, pattern and texture, the other is urban realist painter who finds peverse beauty in tarmac, exhaust fumes and concrete. Both artists are united by their 'Fauvist approaches to colour.

TOBY MESSER: Finds beauty and stature in the mundane grey ordinariness of our nation's motorways and in particular the M4 corridor that runs near to his studio in Brentford. The great, grey slab-like structures have been transformed into great multi-coloured concrete arches and roadways that serve as threads to link our cities. The majority of his works feature sweeping swathes of blue, purple and red and are mostly acrylic on canvas. And for once, the viewer is pleasantly taken on a journey rather than being stuck behind a juggernaut.