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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Plates bright and vivid. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Tate first acquired a painting by Lisa Milroy in 1988 since when we have added five more by purchase and gift. It is therefore a great pleasure to be able to introduce what is the most significant exhibition of her paintings to date. It is always exciting to see the work of an artist develop before one’s eyes and this has certainly been the case during the realisation of this exhibition for Milroy was asked to make a show for us at a time when her work was undergoing significant change. During the past year she has used more of a gestural form of expression to make complex works which depict thoughts memories and narratives in shifting space. This exhibition provides an opportunity to witness the development of her work over the past two decades and to trace the ideas which have shaped her current practice. For this exhibition the paintings are presented in groups rather than chronologically to enable the themes within the work to resonate. Since her paintings from the 1980s depicting collections of quite ordinary objects often against a plain background Milroy has broadened her subject matter to include individuals or groups of people urban or natural vistas and more recently a less tangible substance: thoughts. Whatever the subject or method of painting Milroy’s work contemplates the nature of representation -the translation of mental and physical imagery into the material languages of paint. (MP)