This exhibition titled ‘Landscape: Notions of the Spook’ represents the body of work that makes up half of David Usher’s practice led Doctorate titled Notions of the Spook: Recollections and Nostalgia through personal artist experiences of the contemporary landscape.
While this exhibition is unable to depict three years of thought and making, it has within it, pivotal pieces that have been the starting point for a subsequent body of work (or series of paintings).
David Usher, In the Garden (of Broken Branches), 2023, acrylic and enamel on board, 245cm x 120cm
David Usher, Crossing the Night Paths, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 125 x 94cm
David Usher, Near and Far, #7, #8, #9, 2023, underglazes on stoneware, 40 x 22cm
David Usher, Near and Far #7, 2023, underglazes on stoneware, 40 x 22cm
David Usher, Near and Far #8, 2023, underglazes on stoneware, 40 x 22cm
David Usher, Near and Far #9, 2023, underglazes on stoneware, 40 x 22cm
David Usher, In the Green Lightning, acrylic on canvas, 2022, 75 x 1050
David Usher, The Trees Move (among us), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 105 x 74cm
David Usher, Paradise is On My Mind, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 92cm
David Usher, In Another Place, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 153cm x 102cm
David Usher, A Parting of Ways, 2023, 152cm x 102cm
David Usher, Under the Fences, 2023, oil and acrylic on board 245 x 120cm
David Usher, Waiting on the Rain, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 125 x 94cm
David Usher, In the Mugla Forest, acrylic on canvas, 2022, 122cm
David Usher, Near and Far #3, 2023, underglazes on stoneware, dimensions variable
David Usher, Landscape is the Occasion #1, 2022, underglazes on stoneware, dimensions variable,
David Usher, Near and Far #4, 2023, underglazes on stoneware, dimensions variable