Main Gallery

Figure

18 November 2015 - 20 February 2016

Installation view of Eileen Cooper, Play Dead, 1991, oil on canvas, 152 x 168 cm, and Jack Milroy, The Lady of the Lake, cut and constructed print on acetate film Figure installation image Figure installation image Partou Zia, Green Breath, 2006, oil on canvas, 152 x 183 cm Kate McCrickard, Single Figure, 2013, charcoal and acrylic on grey card, 50 x 30 cm Bridget Macdonald, The Pitcher Bearers, 2012, charcoal on paper, 122 x 82 cm Guler Ates, Purple Shroud, 2013, archival photographic print, 45 x 62.5 cm David Price, Doppelganger, 2015, oil on panel, 72 x 72 cm Machiko Edmondson, Pirouette, 2015, oil on canvas, 182 x 182 cm Gideon Mendel, Nigeria, from the Drowning World Series, archival digital print Graeme Williams, Victoria West, South Africa, 2014, Janine Witboy (19), from the series As the Grass Grows, archival digital print, edition of 5, image size 52 x 36.5 cm

ART FIRST is pleased to present a winter exhibition, Figure, featuring new work from Christopher Cook, Machiko Edmondson, Jack Milroy and David Price with related work by Guler Ates and Bridget Macdonald, alongside important historical pieces by Eileen Cooper and Partou Zia.

"The Figure Is Back, Baby! At MoMA PS1's Greater New York, Artists Vanquish Zombie Formalism With People Art" - so reads the headline of a recent www.artspace.com notice (11 October), which nicely bolsters Art First's understanding that art incorporating the figure has never 'gone away'.