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Fenton Gallery: William Crozier
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William Crozier
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4th - 26th November 2005
The certainty and confidence of William Crozier’s compositional sense sings out in an age of ambiguity. His wonderful use of colour engages depths of pleasure and sensuality within us. Unforgettable spans of pink space, yellow dabbed with black, in pictures that both stimulate the psyche and play with resemblance and memory. Crozier’s paintings are immediately recognisable for their energy vitality and colour. In this exhibition we can particularly enjoy the artist’s excellent graphic abilities, both in the paintings and the beautiful series of works on paper.
Crozier is an acute observer whose work engages with the physical changes to our landscape. Particular places such as Ballydehob (field on a dark-night or the village windows at Corpus Christi weekend) are very influential. Provence and Malaga are present too, in singing and celebratory colour and in the still lives.
We are delighted that such an important group of Crozier’s works will be on view in Cork during its year as European Capital of Culture and that it has been sponsored by O’Flynn Construction.
William Crozier was born in Glasgow in 1930 and educated at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953. On graduating he moved to London where he established his reputation at the forefront of his contemporaries through solo exhibitions at the ICA, Serpentine, Scottish and other Galleries. From the mid-1950s onwards, Crozier spent long periods living in Dublin and Paris, followed by a period in southern Spain, which was to prove central to his development as an artist. He has represented the UK and Ireland overseas, and has been awarded the Premio Lissone. In 1991 the Crawford Art Gallery Cork and the Royal Hibernian Academy curated a large retrospective of his work. He was elected to Aosdana in 1992 and is an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. Crozier’s work can be seen in the national and private collections in the UK and Ireland, as well as in the national galleries of Canada, Poland and Australia and major corporate collections such as the Allied Irish Banks and BNP Paribas.
NOTE: A selection of black & white drawings are also available. See images for details.
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- Easter
oil on canvas
100 x 100cm
SOLD
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