Jeremy Barrett, P5-2022 (detail), 2022. Image couresty of the artist.
Jeremy Barrett
Gallery 1
Friday 3 October - Sunday 26 October
Opening Thursday 2 October 2025, 6pm-8pm
Jeremy Barrett's art practice is essentially an exploratory process, rather than one following a set agenda. He prefers not to have any clear image in mind when beginning a work, but to set the process in motion with a few linear or chromatic marks, which suggest the next move, and soon reach a stage where he knows whether to continue or not, and makes a decision one way or the other. When the basic composition is in place, he develops and refines it until it can be put aside for some time, then given its final treatment to completion.
A kind of formal language has been developed over many years of practice: line, shape, colour and tone, surface effects and textures are the grammar of this visual language. Jeremy seeks to combine these elements to create a work which satisfies his critical eye.To do this it must have its own distinct reality; it must have aesthetic quality, it must in the artist's judgement "work" well enough to become part of his overall production.
Jeremy chooses not to link his art to allusions to social, political, racial or gender issues. There are plenty of other artists doing this. His aim is simply to create works of art that have some quality in their own right for what they are.
He also chooses not to experiment with contemporary techniques, digital ones; he still regards himself as a painter-artist, fully and deeply engaged with the traditional tools, materials and techniques of the artist.
His hope is to communicate something of interest and value to anyone who engages with his work in a really attentive way, rather than merely glancing and moving on.