Furious: paintings by Virginia Bodman, Globe Gallery, 20 July–7 August 2021

Bodman is one of the few artists who has shown in all of Globe Gallery’s various venues and her show will be the last at its current site on the 7th Floor, Commercial Union House, 37 Pilgrim Steet, Newcastle, NE1 6QE

The gallery is situated in a Brutalist-style building (1971) in the centre of Newcastle and offers panoramic views of the city. The building once described as ‘a concrete bungle’ is an entirely appropriate setting for the work as the paintings not only ‘take-on’the scale and physicality of the architecture but also critique ideas current in the period that the building was planned and built.

Furious includes paintings from three bodies of work: StudioStudioStudio, Heaps and Propositions. Some of the paintings in this exhibition were made meditatively, some in a furious state of mind and other painted furiously. Bodman invites you to decide for yourself.

Photographs by Colin Davison

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