John Carter RA
Between Dimensions
2 October 2013 - 16 February 2014
Tennant Gallery, Burlington House
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 4pm
Saturday – Sunday 10am – 6pm
This exhibition has now closed.
Friends of the RA go free
A retrospective exhibition for one of Britain’s most respected abstract sculptors.
John Carter RA is one of Britain’s most respected abstract sculptors. His art has been described as a dialogue between painting and sculpture. This retrospective exhibition focuses on Carter’s use of drawing, and other works on paper, to develop ideas for his relief sculptures and constructions.
Ranging in date from 1965 to 2012, the selection reveals Carter’s development from early Op and Pop Art influences to the rigorously ordered structures of his current work. Maquettes, sketchbooks and working studies are shown alongside the drawings.
Born in 1942, Carter emerged as one of the ‘New Generation’ artists of the 1960s. He has exhibited widely in Europe, Japan and the USA, and taught at the Chelsea College of Art and Design from 1980 until 2000. He was elected a Royal Academician in 2007.
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 4pm
Saturday – Sunday 10am – 6pm
This exhibition has now closed.
Friends of the RA go free
Gallery
Matrix, 2012
Study “Quadrants”, 1966
Pierced Square Study, 1990
Drawing III (Place), 1974
Study for "Monument", 1965
Branched Structure, 1983
To the Edge IB, 2010
Caprice, 1965
Rotation of Linked Diagonals IV, 1997
The eye will range across a surface in search of focal points. It is unable to tolerate blankness.
John Carter RA
Buy the book
John Carter by Chris Yetton
A comprehensive monograph on the art of John Carter RA was published by the Royal Academy of Arts in 2010, the first full survey of Carter’s work.
John Carter by Chris Yetton, with texts by Mel Gooding and Britta E. Buhlmann and a discussion with Klaus Staudt, shows the reliefs for which Carter is best known together with examples of his drawings and public sculpture. It comprises 160 pages and 120 illustrations.
The book is available at the RA Shop and online, priced £29.95.