The new third volume been created to showcase solo exhibitions that have defined contemporary painting since the second volume. This even larger anthology presents the work of eighty-five artists born or living in Britain through documentation and discussion of solo exhibitions of their work in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. Featuring artists at different stages of their careers, from senior figures exhibiting at major museums to emerging artists presenting some of their first commercial gallery exhibitions, The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3 offers an overview of recent activity in the medium of painting in Britain.
The works in Shrines of Gaiety are objects of beauty that we may covet and admire simply for their poetic compositions, but like gold itself, there is more to them than meets the eye. The British-Balinese artist invites viewers into a shimmering, golden world filled with abstract floating shapes, the resonant sound of chanting and the heady scent of incense. This devotional space reflects on cultural heritage, consumerism and colonial pasts.
