Mark Fry    
   

COUNTERPOINT

Paintings by

Mark Fry

14th - 31st May 2013

Private views on:
Tuesday May 14th, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Thursday May 16th, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Sunday May 19th, 12.00 – 3.00pm

Viewing by appointment at other times

Exhibition private view images by Jonathan Milton

 

    Dance Notation  

 

 
   

 

 
   

I have always been intrigued by the various ways in which place, sound, and movement have been depicted – ancient maps, celestial and maritime charts, musical scores, dance notation. Occupied by the search for an explanatory visual language, the transcriber has in different times and places created his own particular visual poetry. In the process of interpreting one mystery, he incidentally creates another.

Some years ago, as I moved towards a more abstract approach to painting, I began to look at these things in a different way. I caught a glimpse of something up ahead. These recent paintings are the maps and charts and musical scores of my imagination: a way of tracing something backwards in order to find the beginning.

Mark Fry, Normandy, 2013.


Mark Fry was born in 1952 into a family of artists and Quaker philanthropists. On leaving Dartington Hall School in 1970 he enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence where he studied under the Futurist Primo Conti. Several solo exhibitions of his work have been held in London.

As a musician Mark Fry is known for his 1971 album Dreaming With Alice, which has been acclaimed as a psychedelic folk classic. He continues to write and record new music, and has appeared on stage in concerts in the
UK, the US, Europe and Japan. Mark Fry works in his studio near Dieppe in
Normandy.

   
       
     
Top of page   Triple counterpoint, 88cm x 71.5cm  
     
    Frequencies, 82.5cm x 69cm  
     
Top of page   Score for six trumpets, 83cm x 66cm  
     
    Descending phrase No. 1, 79.5cm x 70cm  
     
Top of page   Descending phrase No.2, 70.5cm x 63cm  
     
    Cadence No. 10, 79cm x 56 cm  
     
Top of page   Cadence No. 11, 73.5cm x 62cm  
     
    Sotto voce, 62.5cm x 72cm  
     
Top of page   Joining up the stars No.1, 70cm x 62.5cm  
     
    Joining up the stars No.2, 73.5cm x 57.5cm  
     
Top of page   Dance notation, 59cm x 63.5cm  
     
    Lost song No.3, 70.5cm x 42cm  
     
Top of page   Lost song No.4, 41.5cm x 69cm  
     
    We follow the moon, 41.5cm x 69.5cm  
     
Top of page   Fathom lines, 39cm x 70.5cm  
     
    Wave No.3, 41cm x 63cm  
     
Top of page   For Etruscan pipes, 40.5cm x 61.5cm  
     
    Harmonics, 54cm x 40.5cm  
     
Top of page   First interval, 37.5cm x 51cm  
     
    Second interval, 34cm x 50.5cm  
     
Top of page   Tracing stars, 35cm x 43.5cm  
     
    Sixteen counters, 35.5cm x 39.5cm  
     
Top of page   Rivers of time, 33cm x 39cm  
     
   

Classical plan, 39.5cm x 27.5cm

 
     
Top of page   Lost song No.2, 24.5cm x 43cm