Richard Canning | Exhibition

University of Atypical is a gallery in Belfast I visited it to see Richard Cannings work. His exhibit is called 'the space between'. 

Canning is a graduated MA student from Belfast School of Art and is the inaugural recipient of the first Atypical Gallery Graduate Award. The work presented at The Space Between is a continuation of his MA work that looks at consistencies of construction and deconstruction. 

He has created these large scale drawings. adding to the emphasis of emptiness with the negative spaces. It creates a weird tension in the lack of detail, frustration of the unknown. Blank spaces leave remind us that those spaces used to be filled with more intimacy.

I think it is very refreshing having work from recent graduates and work that is hard to find these days. 

I really enjoy line work and simple drawings and over the summer I hope to work on my drawings and build up a collection. My only criticism I have for Cannings work is to go big or go home! Even though this work is already on a big scale I know it can be pushed further and I think the results would be incredible! 

I have applied this to my own practise and have taken my own advice and the results have definitely paid off!