Cure3
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • About
  • 2020
  • BUY ARTWORKS
  • Past Exhibitions
  • Press
  • Contact
  • Donate Now
Cart
0 items £
Checkout

Added to cart

Please note

Your purchase is not confirmed until payment has been accepted and you have been contacted by Cure3.

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu
BUY ARTWORKS

2020

  • 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dillwyn Smith, Be A Lantern in the Dark, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dillwyn Smith, Be A Lantern in the Dark, 2020

Dillwyn Smith

Be A Lantern in the Dark, 2020
Perspex cube, nylon, burnt stretcher, mirrored card
20x20x20cm
Copyright The Artist
Dillwyn Smith, Be A Lantern in the Dark, 2020
Sold
£ 2,500.00
0 in cart
Enquire
%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3EDillwyn%20Smith%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3EBe%20A%20Lantern%20in%20the%20Dark%3C/span%3E%2C%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3E2020%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3EPerspex%20cube%2C%20nylon%2C%20burnt%20stretcher%2C%20mirrored%20card%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3E20x20x20cm%3C/div%3E

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1) Mark Wright, Panorama
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2) Mark Wright, Panorama
  • Be A Lantern in the Dark
b. 1958, UK; lives and works in London 1983-1986 Royal College of Art, London, MA 1978-1981 Canterbury College of Art, BA Following artist residencies in Latvia (the birth place of...
Read more
b. 1958, UK; lives and works in London

1983-1986 Royal College of Art, London, MA
1978-1981 Canterbury College of Art, BA


Following artist residencies in Latvia (the birth place of Mark Rothko) and Oman, Dillwyn Smith began a series of works that eschew the canvas and replace it with transparent fabric that reveals not only light and colour but the supporting structure of the stretcher beneath. He says: “Across the years I became excited that colour within fabric, as opposed to on fabric, refracts light and interacts with the eye differently to a painted surface’. So these are not paintings, but rather, painterly fabric pieces. Or perhaps they might be called fabric paintings”

Carrying on this exploration of light and transparency for Cure3, Smith has embraced the Perspex space to produce Be a Lantern in the Dark. Made with fabrics sourced in markets as far apart as Oman and London, the artist has transformed the cube into a polyptych, sitting on top of a cardboard mirror. The stretcher has been blowtorched, then waxed, and the mirror adds a playful element while it also illuminates the work. One reviewer has commented that Smith’s greatest gift is “to imbue colour with spiritual energy”. Here, in the context of Cure3, Be a Lantern in the Dark, provides a message of hope, friendship and positivity.


www.patrickheide.com

Portrait courtesy the Artist
Close full details
Share
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
Previous
|
Next
57 
of 65
Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2021 Cure3
Site by Artlogic

The Cure Parkinson’s Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales (1111816) and Scotland (SCO44368) and a company limited by guarantee – company number 55399740.

 

Cookie Policy    |    Privacy Policy

Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Twitter, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.