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Sunday Salon 23 | Eric Butcher | An End Always has a Start
Saturation Point, Deptford, London. 18 Sept 2022.
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Eric Butcher’s recent work represents a significant departure from the creative approach
he has become known for over the past couple of decades. Driven by a profound re-evaluation
of his studio practice coupled with extreme environmental anxiety, he has deconstructed
his former work, pulling it apart both intellectually and physically, peeling the
skins of paint from their supports and categorising them according to a basic taxonomy.
The resulting skins, fragments and traces of paint are presented sandwiched between
sheets of glass like specimens. They provide a record or index of past artistic endeavours,
a ‘natural history’ of his creative self. He has, in addition, made an extraordinary
undertaking; to use only those materials already available in the studio - using
up, re-purposing and recycling what he already has without consuming more. When he
has run out of materials he will simply stop making art.
