Geometric Sculpture

Simple Matters, is an exciting new exhibition of works by geometric sculptor George Meyrick at the Exchange in Penzance. It relates to space, colour and illusion – three things that can astonish even the most high-brow exhibition viewer. I saw children racing happily around the exhibition, pointing and exclaiming at the huge shapes protruding from or retreating into the walls of the white gallery. The shapes lunging out of the wall are made of plywood or painted in carefully chosen shades of matt or gloss, to give a sense of three-dimension.

Meyrick uses colour as a tool, which directs the eye “to bounce” energetically over the sculptures with enormous energy. He mixes colours creating soft and hard tones, drawing his audience’s attention in and out of shape and along the wall. Two of his works are created with coloured string, tightly suspended like line drawings in mid-air.

Meyrick’s work is vibrant and energetic. “I enjoy playing with space,” said George Meyrick to visitors at the opening of the exhibition on 27 January. He also encouraged his audience to challenge the sculptures by moving around them, even to get in to them, in the case of the string scuptures.
Meyrick was born in 1953. He attended St Martin’s School of Art, Brighton Polytechnic and the Chelsea School of Art and has exhibited consistently since graduating in 1975, as part of group exhibitions and solo exhibitions, such as the one currently being shown in Penzance. He cites the Russian constructivists and American minimalists as guiding influences in his work. The exhibition will continue until 14 April 2012.
On 7 April at 2pm George Meyrick will be discussing The Art of Making, at the Newlyn Art Gallery.

See: www.newlynartgallery.co.uk