Viva Lewes Issue #160 January 2020

ART
Anne Ryan
Earthly Delites
I take my leave from Anne Ryan, a slight figure
in colourful trainers and a bouffant of grey hair,
in the main downstairs space of the Hastings
Contemporary art gallery, formerly known as The
Jerwood.
The walls are filled with large oil works by Victor
Willing, whose exhibition is showing till January
5th, before Anne takes up the space on the 18th.
She has a tape measure in her hands. She’s got a
lot of curating to do before her show is ready to
be seen.
She’s been telling me about her latest body of
sculptural paintings, akin to a body of work she’s
shown recently at a gallery in Rome, where she
spent three months preparing the material. “I was
going around the place drawing everything that
took my fancy. I’d run out of paper and had to use
the card on the back of the pad. That was the basis
for these pieces. They stand up, on the ground.
Some of them have three sides, some five. People
walk round them. They spend a bit of time with
Left: ‘Untitled#03, 2019’. Above: ‘Disco Legs, 2018’. By Anne Ryan
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