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The primary focus of Joy Gerrard’s work in recent years has been the depiction of crowds. She makes small monochrome drawings, and more recently large paintings, of dense crowd scenes taken from newspaper and online images of mass urban protest. Viewed from above, from tall buildings or from news helicopters, Gerrard’s images present a topographical view of hordes of people contained within or spilling out of huge civic spaces in a kind of calligraphic active groundswell. Hundreds of intense, tiny brush marks draw the viewer into particular incident within the works, but equally, they are immediately recognisable – being derived from powerful images that have proliferated via the mass media of the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, mass actions across European cities, US inner city demonstrations and many others. These are all part of our recent history.
We read these works as both abstract and figurative – spectacle and event. For Gerrard, this tension between what is depicted and the physical making of the work is held constantly at play. What drives the work is an enquiry into the relationship between the built environment and the right to assembly, as both protest and individual expression; “The image comes from a …
The primary focus of Joy Gerrard’s work in recent years has been the depiction of crowds. She makes small monochrome drawings, and more recently large paintings, of dense crowd scenes taken from newspaper and online images of mass urban protest. Viewed from above, from tall buildings or from news helicopters, Gerrard’s images present a topographical view of hordes of people contained within or spilling out of huge civic spaces in a kind of calligraphic active groundswell. Hundreds of intense, tiny brush marks draw the viewer into particular incident within the works, but equally, they are immediately recognisable – being derived from powerful images that have proliferated via the mass media of the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, mass actions across European cities, US inner city demonstrations and many others. These are all part of our recent history.
We read these works as both abstract and figurative – spectacle and event. For Gerrard, this tension between what is depicted and the physical making of the work is held constantly at play. What drives the work is an enquiry into the relationship between the built environment and the right to assembly, as both protest and individual expression; “The image comes from a real moment in time, in a real place, when thousands came together to protest at an injustice or an entire regime, or the railing against the taking of a single life.” But ultimately, the work emerges from a series of minute decisions made about mark making and composition; “The tonal balance often has no relation to the original photographic image… the image will not function until this is correct.”
Courtesy of PEER
The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
The Ark, Dublin, Ireland
Dublin Docklands Authority, Ireland
Urban Initiatives, Dublin, Ireland
The Department of the Environment, Dublin, Ireland.
Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland
Allied Irish Bank, Dublin, Ireland
The Bank of Ireland, Ireland
The Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
The Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland
University College Cork, Ireland
Standard Life, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Museum of Central Finland, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Il Bisonte International Centre of Graphic Art, Florence, Italy
The D.L.A. Group, London, UK
The Lattice Group, London, UK
W.J.P Chiltern, London, UK
Facebook, London, UK
Bazalgatte PLC, London, UK
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