Untold Pathways: Marion Piper
In her debut solo exhibition with After Nyne Contemporary, Marion Piper offers an exploration of progression and balance through geometric pattern and connected tincture.
'Untold Pathways' is a continuation of Piper's 'The Drift' series, which has been in development since March 2020. Stirred by the knowledge that 'drift' is another term for the ancient routes for driving livestock, or drove-roads, Piper ruminates pathways; the incitement of determination and movement.
Sophisticated, clean shapes are manifestation of Piper's encyclopaedic influences, from Edouard Manet’s use of colour to the Bauhaus weaving of Gunta Stözl, from English novelists to French poets, concrete to cloth, city to country.
Each 'Drift' work abstractly and formally riffs on themes of interrelation. The suede-like colours themselves, alongside white, black, and buff, are mixed from the same three paint tubes. Meanwhile their titles - switches, stacks, springs, palettes, frames and grids - are each connecting devices.