Anthony Daley

Anthony Daley: Corporeality
7 DECEMBER 2021 - 31 JANUARY 2022
Anthony Daley: Corporeality is the inaugural physical exhibition by Gallery OCA, a gallery established to support, promote and showcase the work of artists of Caribbean heritage. Dedicated to telling the story of Caribbean artists, founder Sherece Rainford has set her sights on drawing people into a new way of discovering and learning about art of the islands.

This exhibition showcases Daley’s luminous paintings which are an amalgam of places, memories, experiences of growing up in Jamaica and future visions. Although reminiscent of aquatic landscapes or beautiful skies, their subjects and meaning remain fundamentally opaque. Through processes of over-painting, erasure, and blur, Daley develops rhythmic surfaces that conceal as much as they expose, and which interrogate the interconnections of beauty and chaos.
Growing up in Jamaica, I was exposed to the penultimate sheer beauty that nature has to offer. My adoration for colour and the abstract of such came from nesting in the bush, gazing at the rain drops and mist - seeping reds, blues and greens through the jungle fog. At four years old I admired the force of gravity which propels water, motion and our perception of seeing this very world. My love for colour wasn't inherited through family, but through seeking out and searching for the beauty in life itself - in people, nature, and beyond.
Anthony Daley

Anthony Daley (b. 1960 in Jamaica, lives and works in London) received his Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from Wimbledon School of Art in 1982, and his Masters Degree in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art in 1983.

Daley was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Painting Fellowship in 1984 and has exhibited in over 25 solo exhibitions internationally; in London, New York, Los Angeles and Zurich. His work is held in The Tate and the National Portrait Gallery. Daley’s work was also included in Edward Lucie-Smith’s seminal publication, Art Today, and the 2014 publication Black Artists in British Art by Eddy Chambers.

Daley’s work was recently included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021, Reclaiming Magic, coordinated by Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), and in 2022 his work will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
Colour is hypnotic, it takes all humans by surprise. The split-second moments of abstract skies, a river reflecting hallucinations of light, the pink fog of a spring morning – these abstract moments surround us outside of the canvas.
I let the forces of inspiration from the everyday, paintings, life and sociological events to create meticulous yet organic movement on each canvas. No mark is accidental, and no mark is to act as a filler. Each stroke has to bring a life of its own to the fabric, or it is simply removed and reworked until the right mark finds its way again.
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