From 14th to 17th March 2019, Missing People are presenting an exhibition of portraits of missing loved ones in conjunction with many contributors.
The website, including details of how to purchase tickets, is here:
The website, including details of how to purchase tickets, is here:
Andrew is included in this exhibition. As a family, we feel it is something he would appreciate as we spent plenty of time in galleries small and large as he was growing up. He would like something that made you think or stimulated you to look at something in a different way. Something that engendered an emotional response or just made you say “Wow”.
The portrait of Andrew achieves just this and so is particularly meaningful for us. It has been produced by artist Timothy Gatenby. His website, which helps to explain his thinking about his art, is here:
https://timothygatenby.com/
My own reaction to the portrait he has produced is that he has achieved a likeness of Andrew that is clearly “him”. But the portrait says much more than that to us. His use of monochromatic colours and the almost translucent effect gives an impression that reflects how long Andrew has been missing from our family. It is clearly his face, but the absence of realism powerfully reflects how that face has been distanced from us by the passage of time. Andrew is so clearly present in our thoughts and feelings, but after all this time any image we conjure up can only ever have this “make believe” quality.
Your own reactions may of course be very different to ours, that is the joy of good art, one can come back to it over and over and see or feel something different each time.
The exhibition will undoubtedly be meaningful far beyond the personal responses of family members and so I would encourage the reader to consider attending and to think about the impact of missing people at a wider societal level with the stimulus of these amazing artists’ work.
I hope this preview of Andrew’s portrait helps you to understand what it is all about. Who knows, I may see you there…
The portrait of Andrew achieves just this and so is particularly meaningful for us. It has been produced by artist Timothy Gatenby. His website, which helps to explain his thinking about his art, is here:
https://timothygatenby.com/
My own reaction to the portrait he has produced is that he has achieved a likeness of Andrew that is clearly “him”. But the portrait says much more than that to us. His use of monochromatic colours and the almost translucent effect gives an impression that reflects how long Andrew has been missing from our family. It is clearly his face, but the absence of realism powerfully reflects how that face has been distanced from us by the passage of time. Andrew is so clearly present in our thoughts and feelings, but after all this time any image we conjure up can only ever have this “make believe” quality.
Your own reactions may of course be very different to ours, that is the joy of good art, one can come back to it over and over and see or feel something different each time.
The exhibition will undoubtedly be meaningful far beyond the personal responses of family members and so I would encourage the reader to consider attending and to think about the impact of missing people at a wider societal level with the stimulus of these amazing artists’ work.
I hope this preview of Andrew’s portrait helps you to understand what it is all about. Who knows, I may see you there…
