David Batchelor, New Skin for the Old Ceremony

Over three decades, David Batchelor has drawn inspiration from colours and forms he encounters within urban environments. Across sculpture, painting, photography, printmaking and site-specific installations, his work is a celebration of colour and its many manifestations in contemporary life. Newly commissioned works for this exhibition see his distinctive style translated into new media.

Batchelor has worked closely with craftspeople in Guadalajara, Marrakech and London to translate several of his recent works into quilts, kilims, embroidery and beadwork. These slow manual processes are seemingly at odds with an artistic practice that has often favoured the quick and improvised. The act of slowing down is a counterpoint to this immediate and energetic way of working, and an invitation to take time in looking.