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Painting, come radon chime
Auction House, Redruth
20 - 28 May 2022
Press Release:
Painting, come radon chime comprises a group of
paintings, a single piece of furniture, a
portal, and a new site-specific sound installation, by
artist Christopher P. Green.
The selection marks both Green’s commitment to painting
and his ongoing fascination with
its relationship to sound and music. Several of the works
highlight the contrasts that Green
has experienced in Cornwall, specifically its more wild,
less polished landscapes and its
known high radioactivity, compared with the much more
conservative tradition of the
regularly-timed chimes that ring out from the village
church opposite his studio.
Green’s practice is concerned with revision and
reinterpretation through the making of
paintings and exhibitions. His polymorphic paintings
cross-pollinate, by way of his faded
recollection of past work, or in some cases, the physical
transfer of one painting’s content
to another. In Painting, come radon chime, the
concept of painting-as-composition is made
literal with the inclusion of a large scale ‘portal’ that
occupies a partition wall.
In 2013, Green resolved that he mostly wanted to make
small paintings, arriving at the size
of 24 x 15 cm. He found it to be a way to ‘loosen things
up’, where, he described, he could
‘throw all sorts of ideas onto them and the set size would
hold them together’. Where some
might be intimidated working to this limited scale, Green
finds their intimacy liberating.
Working on 3-5 paintings at a time, he tries to ‘keep them
all moving’, and where some
come together in a matter of a few days, others can take
years: ‘there’s a past-future
working relationship active in the present’.
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime installation view
untitled
2017
Printed paper, acrylic, painted paper on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
Detail of untitled
untitled
2016
Acrylic, painted paper on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime installation view
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime installation view
To the east
2021
Acrylic, painted paper on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
Detail of To the east
The yes or no of the borderzone
2018
Acrylic, emulsified acrylic, painted paper, on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime installation
view
untitled
2022
Acrylic, graphite on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime
installation view
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime
installation view
Comic returns
2016
Acrylic on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
Detail of Comic returns
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime
installation view
untitled
2016
Enamel, acrylic, painted paper on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
Detail of untitled
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime
installation view
Rogers
2016-2022
Acrylic, graphite on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime
installation view
untitled
2018
Acrylic on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
I can hear the grass grow
2021
Acrylic, painted paper on birch panel
24 x 15 cm
Detail of I can hear the grass grow
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime
installation view
Christopher P. Green
Bob Law’s higher ground (formerly R.C Sheering is here,
2016-2018)
2018-2022
Acrylic on canvas over 4 panels
193 x 120 x 5.5 cm (total dimension)
Christopher P. Green
Detail of Bob Law’s higher ground (formerly R.C Sheering is
here, 2016-2018)
Christopher P. Green
R. Crudd MKI bench (short version)
2018-2022
Salvaged plywood, varnish, screws
45 x 120 x 38 cm
Christopher
P. Green
Painting, come radon chime
installation view
Work that couldn't be photographed:
Radon chimes
2022
4 audio recordings played at 15 min intervals
60 min total cycle
All photos courtesy Christopher P. Green