Publications
Fred Sorrell: Long Tide
Published by Fred Sorrell
Introduction by Ben Tufnell, essay by Philip King, interview with Thalia Allington-Wood
2020. 56 pp., 22 ills., 20.5 × 20.5 cm
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Exhibitions — 2020
Fred Sorrell
Long Tide
14 February – 11 July 2020
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Fred Sorrell:
Long Tide
Installation view
Photo: Peter Mallet
Parafin is delighted to announce its first exhibition with the young British artist Fred Sorrell. This will be Sorrell’s first major solo exhibition and will focus on new work, including his largest paintings to date.
Sorrell’s paintings have their basis in the act of looking. His work is predicated on a rigorous and extended study of light, colour, space and form in nature. Sorrell says ‘When studying colour in nature and watching how it splits, bounces, reflects and absorbs, I ask myself, “How much am I not seeing?”’
Beginning with colour studies and notes made in the landscape Sorrell then works in the studio to distill his perceptions into abstract compositions. He develops pictorial structures that maximise the dynamic interplay of colour and which dramatise the relationship of motif and ground. His paintings are not presentations but rather, using subtle shifts and transitions of tone and colour, Sorrell seeks to create a viewing experience analogous to that experienced before nature. His abstract images are therefore not merely an objective record but an emotional response that also reflects the fluid dynamism of the experience of looking.
While his paintings encapsulate a highly personal, temporal perception of space, their titles take the viewer back to the point of inspiration. Titles such as Field, Dusk or Late Summer reference a location or season, thus tracing aspects of Sorrell’s inspiration. For Sorrell it is important that his work is connected to the natural world and not seen in isolation. However, as Sorrell says, ‘the paintings can be read on different levels. The colours and forms begin to build on my sense of the connectedness of space through light.’ Through this process, he says, ‘all the parts of the painting take on their own meaning and can act independently’.
Introduction
Press Release (PDF)
Exhibition Guide
(PDF)
Selected Works
Fred Sorrell
Long Tide i
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
33.5 × 37.5 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02119
Fred Sorrell
Long Tide ii
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
33.5 × 43.5 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02120
Fred Sorrell
Long Tide iii
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
51 × 44 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02121
Fred Sorrell
Boundary
2019
Acrylic on canvas
160 × 170 cm
Photo: Peter Mallet
PFN02250
Fred Sorrell
Of Dusk i
2019
Acrylic on polyester
40.5 × 50.7 cm
PFN02122
Fred Sorrell
Of Dusk ii
2019
Acrylic on polyester
70 × 50 cm
PFN02123
Fred Sorrell
Of Dusk iii
2019
Acrylic on linen
56 × 66.5 cm
PFN02128
Fred Sorrell
Settle ii
2017
Acrylic on polyester
30.5 × 40.5 cm
PFN02124
Fred Sorrell
Spring Time Rhythm
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
33.5 × 47.5 cm
PFN02125
Fred Sorrell
Field i
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
48.7 × 53 cm
PFN02126
Fred Sorrell
Autumn Evening
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
33.5 × 47.5 cm
PFN02127
Fred Sorrell
Settle i
2016
Acrylic on polyester
31.5 × 35 cm
PFN02247
Fred Sorrell
Dapple i
2016
Oil canvas
93 × 44.5 cm
PFN02248
Fred Sorrell
Dapple ii
2017
Oil on canvas
31 × 35.5 cm
PFN02249
Biography
Fred Sorrell (born London, 1984) studied at Falmouth College University (2004-8). His most recent solo exhibition was ‘Between Sea and Sky’, Saturation Point, London (2019). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, Royal Standard, Liverpool, and Cob Gallery, London. He has undertaken residencies at The Florence Trust, London (2012-13), Takt, Berlin (2009) and Kerel de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerp (2008). He lives and works in London.
Further Reading
Weaving Space: Artist Fred Sorrell
Emily Cameron, toa.st magazine, 18 February 2020
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