Ian McKeever - Against Photography: Early Works 1975-1990

A rare opportunity to be fully immersed in the dynamic first two decades of a long and distinguished career, and a fascinating prism through which to view the years that followed; the continuous evolution of structure, scale, and intent, with an unwavering engagement and purpose.

The exhibition at HackelBury Fine Art brings together for the first time since McKeever’s mid-career retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1990 works from the earliest phase of his career.

Highlighting the artist’s transition from a dialogue with drawing, painting and photography to an engagement with pure painting; this movement at the same time mirrors the transition in the work from landscape to abstraction.