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Morton Metropolis’ Spring/Summer season will open with a short but powerful exhibition of prints by celebrated artist, Gerald Laing. Laing's latest screenprint, Belshazzar's Feast, will be launched at the opening of his exhibition. It is an illustration of the political and social situation in Britain today. Laing will be the first of five artists to exhibit at the gallery. Subsequent exhibitions commence with Rupert Shrive, known for his singular practice of turning painting into sculpture; continues with Angus Hampel, an emerging artist, producing extraordinary images of creation with oil and gold and Stuart Semple, whose paintings present a hybrid mix of zeitgeist imagery culled from a pop landscape.  

Gerald Laing has produced some of the most significant works of the British pop art movement. In London during the early 1960s he pioneered the painting of enormous canvasses based on newspaper photographs of models, astronauts and film stars. In recent years Laing has returned to his earlier style, using media images of topical events and figures. His latest works demonstrate the unsettling collision in today's media between the obsession with celebrity status and image, and the grittier topics of war and politics. This inaugural Morton Metropolis exhibition ‘Gerald Laing – Graphics’ will show a selection of Gerald Laing prints from both his vintage and recent collections.

www.geraldlaing.com

www.stuartsemple.com