THE FOUND IS MORE POWERFUL THAN THE MADE….

An exhibition of recent work by Steve McPherson and Graham Rich at the gallery in Wells.

The found is more powerful than the made is a typically playful – and deliberately contentious – assertion made by Rich.  That artists are makers, creators, is seemingly self-evident; and yet for this exhibition there was never a blank canvas and tubes of unctuous oil paint, no burnished copper plate, nor even any digital intermediary, for both these artists rely entirely on the found object.  What is more, the provenance of that object is invariably the shorelines close to where they live; for Rich, that is usually the southern coast of Devon and Cornwall and for McPherson, the beaches of north-east Kent. 

June 16th - July 29th 2023