Bartholomew Beal: A Heap Of Broken Images

The Fine Art Society is proud to announce Bartholomew Beal's first exhibition at the gallery, making him the youngest ever artist to stage a solo show in the gallery's 138 year history. The title A Heap of Broken Images, is borrowed from TS Eliot's landmark poem The Waste Land.

The entire body of work is a translation of this literary work into paint on canvas. Eliot's powerful poem jumps between languages, characters and points of view - much like Beal's atmospheric paintings, themselves heaps of broken images. There may be a specific starting point for each work but the creative journey is far from certain, with traces of several other ghost paintings which are crucial fragments of the story of that work.

Somewhat unusually for works of such an understated appeal, Beal works in saturated colours. His adoption of a bright often unatural palette is combined with obscured shapes and unidentified visual references, further heightening a sense that he is constructing uncloncluded episodes.