Lesley Vance and Ilse Roosens

In this new video, Lesley Vance discusses the exhibition, Fired and painted (23 November 2023—3 February 2024) with curator Ilse Roosens.

“I think what activates Ken Price’s work is gesture. It is that feeling of his hand over different parts of the sculpture. Certainly, that’s a connection I feel with his work — the importance of gesture on something that feels so finished and controlled.”

"Fired and painted" brings together a recent series of paintings by Lesley Vance and a group of ceramic sculptures by Ken Price. Two American artists of different generations and disciplines but whose abstract works share a number of affinities. Taking scale as a departure point, Vance has pushed her practice in new directions for this exhibition, her fifth with the gallery.