Goss show opens at Pallant House
The first museum show of paintings by Nick Goss (b 1981), regarded as one of Britain’s most exciting contemporary painters, is at Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery until June 9.
Goss’s large-scale narrative paintings feature imaginary cityscapes and interior scenes, exploring themes of displacement and natural disaster.
Gallery director Simon Martin said: “In this exhibition, which features 12 major paintings including a group of new works,
Goss reimagines his home city of London. Using a collage-based approach, his paintings feature a mix of materials including oil paint, silkscreens, stencils and pastels. Imagery and stories are also layered, drawn from personal memories as well as historical events.
“Goss incorporates impressions of the
1953 Flood in Zeeland, the Netherlands, as recounted by his maternal grandmother, as well as J G Ballard’s pioneering 1962 work of climate fiction The Drowned World. He skilfully combines observations of everyday life in his South London urban surroundings, such as Morley’s Chicken Shop and the patterned floor of London Underground trains, collapsing time and space and questioning the psychology of place.”