Curator Hopes Exhibition Will Introduce Digital Art To People

Dr Gerardine Mulcahy-Parker, curator of the exhibition that showcases digital painting and sculpture will help introduce digital art to a wider audience.

The new exhibition at Beverley Art Gallery called ‘A Cultural Pilgrimage from Beverley to Hull’ features the work of Gary Saunt, an artist based in Beverley and sculptures by his daughter Kat Saunt.

Measuring 20.3M by 96CM this superb digital painting is must see for any one regardless of age, who will enjoy the countless stories told.

Explaining more about ‘A Cultural Pilgrimage from Beverley to Hull’ Gerardine said;

“I have been working with Gary on this project for two years now and I think it’s been a real eye-opener for me being introduced to digital media which has made this a very interesting exercise.”

“Hopefully people will come away with is a greater appreciation for digital painting. It is not cut-and-paste, it is not photo montage, everything that is in the painting has been painted, but digitally.”

“There is a film that we made with Gary just to demonstrate his technique and so I’m hoping people will really begin to appreciate that.”

His work, while a more modern style is similar to works of a very famous artist from Beverley, Fred Elwell. Gerardine says there are thing both artists share some common styles, she said;

“Fred was a very traditional painter. Even when the modernist movement came along Fred stuck with traditional styles. There are actually some quite number of similarities with Gary and Fred.”

“Although Gary is embracing new media he sticks with figurative painting. His work is not abstract in any way and that he uses very much traditional compositional skills. There is a lot of very strong traditional base to his work it and it is a lovely way into the subject.”

“It is challenging but you get lost in the story of it so I am hoping it will appeal to people who love art and who have no interest in art but have got interest in the subject matter, in the figures, and in the in the stories.”

“This exhibition is also a nice way to get a different audience coming into an art gallery. That’s what galleries are for they are not for, not just for the high-minded, they are for everybody.”

“I really hope painting and this particular commission will bring in as broad an audience, young and old, whatever your interest there is something there.”

This is second in a series of three signature events that will come to Beverley as part of the Hull 2017 City of Culture and is certainly worth visiting.

Opening to the public from Saturday 21 October for six weeks admission to A Cultural Pilgrimage from Beverley to Hull at Beverley Art Gallery is free.