Lys Hansen, Reach_Berlin, (detail), 2002, mixed media

Drawing Breath, marks the second phase of Cooper Gallery’s Materiality & Metaphysics Series, which presents drawings, photographs and video works by the influential Scottish painter Lys Hansen and the up-and-coming Teesside based artist Kraig Wilson, whose works draw attention to the haunting encounter between the mind and the world.

The exhibition choreographs a body of raw, potent and astonishing works from two generations. Interrogating what appears abstract, but which is the root of daily experience; the reflection upon materiality and metaphysics present in Hansen and Wilson’s artistic explorations, echoes the conversations generated in the juxtaposition of their works.

For more details and to read the Herald’s review, read on here! 

Lys Hansen & Kraig Wilson – Drawing Breath
Cooper Gallery
Exhibition: 2 – 30 March 2012
In-Conversation Event: 14 March, 11am – 12.30pm, D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Perth Road, Dundee. All Welcome – no need to book.

Kraig Wilson, Still Life (Mother), 2010, photograph