Day Bowman

The strength of Bowman’s imagery is immediate, accessible and designed to elicit a response from gallery audiences unused to straightforward questioning on how we perceive society today. The paintings, a mix of collage, charcoal and gestural brush strokes in oil invite us to enter an Edgeland’s vista of gasometers, abandoned water pipes and barbed wire; other paintings from the series reference the shapes and forms of much post-industrial architecture such as cooling towers, water towers and wasteland detritus.

And so with Ian Knox’s film reflecting the gritty landscapes alluded to in Bowman’s large, gestural paintings the journey becomes a metaphor for mass transmigration: as Bowman says, ‘questioning our perception of place, of memory and of loss’. Echoing these feelings is a collection of traditional songs of emigration, exile and longing put through the radical machine and electronic beats that are the hallmark of TransGlobal Underground.

Day Bowman studied at Chelsea School of Art and London University 1977 – 1980. Recent solo exhibitions include Phoenix Arts Centre Exeter, The National Maritime Museum Falmouth, Sherborne House and Dean Clough Gallery Halifax. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery London, Contemporary Arts Society, Royal Academy Summer Show, The London Group and CUBE Manchester.

A fully illustrated catalogue with a forward by Mel Gooding and short essay by Jenny Blyth will be available from the gallery throughout the exhibition.

Gasometer 4 oil, carcoal & conte on canvas 152 x 168cm	Fast Moving Trains 10 mixed media collage on paper 30 x 40cm £ 560	Study for Edgelands 2 mixed media collage on canvas 26 x 30cm £ 700
Fast Moving Trains 2/01 mixed media collage on paper 34 x 40cm £ 560
installation shot of The Urban Wastelands Project	installation shot of The Urban Wastelands Project