Lloyd Durling, 'Silent Gaze'

Ideas around topography are of central importance to Durling’s practice and are explored through continuing walking projects. These serve as opportunities to gather diverse source material through physical and emotional interactions with whichever environment chosen to traverse. It amounts to a kind of urban or rural wandering where the information gathered is reinterpreted or reimagined. These feed into a deep connection with place and landscape, mystic arrangements of stone, wall paintings, light and shadow, turf mazes, strange geometries of ancient worship and forgotten histories – all these elements find a way into the work.

Lloyd Durling is a British artist working in London. His practice is painting-based, and he is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He has exhibited widely throughout Europe, Asia and U.S.A, and solo exhibitions include among others, Pippy Houldsworth, London; Golden, Chicago; Pflueger68, Berlin and Babel, Trondheim. Works are held in both public and private collections worldwide; Whitworth Art Gallery, Progressive Collection and Nomura Bank, Japan.