The painting of mine chosen for this group exhibition by Laurent Delaye Gallery reflects a wider historical link and understanding toward abstract painting which offers both a commonality with concrete and constructivist art forms, whilst antagonistically questioning its values and premises.

Common Ground gives a particular visibility to the discipline and philosophy of abstract/concrete art forms as this historical genre has been of central importance to the gallery over the years, and many collaborations have come from it. Collaboration here is intended for for those artists who continue to experiment in the concrete/abstraction tradition with the new generation represented in this exhibition renewing the enduring question of the relationship between scientific cognition and aesthetic perception. Concurrently, all the artists add an extra dimension to the central themes of concrete art by not only examining formalist structures, but also melding the poetic and the imaginary within their compositions.

Artists: Fabio Almeida - Paul Atkins - Kate Beaugié - Katrina Blannin - Rosalind Davis - Fiona de Bulat - Drew Edwards - Justin Hibbs - Caroline List - Bérénice Mayaux - Jason Oddy - Cathy Rogers - Anna Silverton - Bob and Roberta Smith - Michael Stubbs -
Jessica Voorsanger