Roy Oxlade: Shine Out Fair Sun
Hastings Contemporary
5 July – 5 October 2019
Roy Oxlade, ‘Shine Out Fair Sun’, 2019, exhibition view, Hastings Contemporary. Courtesy: Hastings Contemporary
Roy Oxlade, ‘Shine Out Fair Sun’, 2019, exhibition view, Hastings Contemporary. Courtesy: Hastings Contemporary
Roy Oxlade, ‘Shine Out Fair Sun’, 2019, exhibition view, Hastings Contemporary. Courtesy: Hastings Contemporary
Roy Oxlade is the subject of a major institutional exhibition at Hastings Contemporary, on view from6 July – 6 October 2019.
Described in the Guardian as ‘one of the most impressive British painters of the past 50 years’, Oxlade was an artist, art writer and highly influential teacher. His approach to painting was energetic, bold and instinctive and he was well known for his powerful use of colour.
‘Roy Oxlade: Shine Out Fair Sun’ features work from the 60 years of Oxlade’s artistic output, including some of his earliest paintings produced in the 1950s while studying as a student of David Bomberg, alongside Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. This exhibition gives visitors the opportunity to encounter an extraordinary and previously overlooked artist’s vision that impressed many of his own students and contemporaries.
Oxlade believed that art should be rooted in nature and the artist’s immediate surroundings, taking inspiration from the objects of daily life, ‘things, trees, houses, cats, people’. Oxlade was married to the artist Rose Wylie, and he admired the work of artists including Henri Matisse, David Bomberg, as well as Hastings Contemporary’s other exhibiting artist, Tal R.