Guy Haddon Grant

Pi Artworks London is pleased to host Guy Haddon Grant's solo show between the dates July 13th and August 14th, 2021.

Guy Haddon Grant's monochromatic sculptures and drawings lie at the boundary between abstraction and figuration. His sculptures ascend with casual spontaneity and disruptive force, his drawings, ephemeral in nature, grapple with the tension between density and lightness. Caught in between the traditional and contemporary worlds, Haddon Grant loosened his stroke, abstracting natural forms, prefencing dynamism and emotion over surgical accuracy. At this intersection, classicism bleeds into contemporaneity.

In this exhibition, we encounter a new body of work driven by explorations around ‘archetypes’. His line of aesthetic investigation interrogates personal tropes which define a decade of his artistic practice. The exhibition develops a highly dialogic environment. Sculptures in the familiar totem format speak to large scale cloud drawings and bone studies, while flirting with smaller candle soot drawings. The works move seamlessly between abstract motifs that are figurative in aspect and visceral structures that seem to follow an internal psychic schema. Aspects of this body of work explore universal symbols, such as the mother, and other primal human individualities. Harnessing the collective unconscious as an ephemeral medium, Haddon Grant captures complex yet familiar human stories in sync with our times and balanced with historical precedence.