STRUAN TEAGUE

Struan Teague’s paintings claim a quiet victory for poetry over clamour. His touch and feel for paint and pastel, the way he values intuition over orchestration, is unusually rare. They are paintings with a deeply personal quality to them - a privacy, that is less about concealing process or hidden content, rather these paintings revel in the musing and notations of an open spirit.

In the end it is their unlikely marriage of fragility and assuredness that is so compelling. The combinations of drawings and photographs offer an insight into Teague’s process, building intuitive and abstract visual structures out of close observation with everyday surroundings. The automatism of lines, scratches, gestures, small dabs of colour on textured ground, and off-center compositions open up new spaces of possibility that resist critical dogmatism, conceptual rationalism, and language as mere communication.

"There’s things in there somewhere, there’s bits of nature and landscape, there’s rhythm, music and movement and space"

"My work has developed a lot but I’ve always had the same approach and interest in abstract communication"

Struan Teague (Edinburgh, 1991), lives and works in London.

He exposed at Fox Jensen & Day01 Gallery - Sydney, annex14 - Zurich, Minus Offspace - Vienna, Encounter Contemporary & Richeldis Fine Art - London, South Parade - London, Spazio ORR - Brescia, Bricks Gallery - Copenhagen, Galeria Alzueta - Barcelona, The Saatchi Gallery - London, The Court - Pescara, Pictura and Abstracte - Dordrecht, Lepsien Art Foundation - Düsseldorf, Like a Little Disaster - Polingano a Mare, Galería Kernal - Cáceres, Patriothall - Edinburgh, Fifi Projects - San Pedro, Royal Scottish Academy - Edinburgh, Summerhall - Edinburgh, Generator Projects - Dundee, SWG3 - Glasgow.

STRUAN TEAGUE

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