The Royal couple met with the young winners
of our Page Turner competition, whose works
hang in the gallery, pupils from Northdown Primary School and Hartsdown Technology College who were involved in activities in the Clore Learning Studio, and participants from our current and past community projects; Artworks,
Blank Canvas, Cultural Ambassadors, The Great Art Quest, Generate and Art
of Sound, as well as our Youth Navigators.
Working in a slacker aesthetic, Joe Bradley regularly uses the least amount
of effort possible to transform material into artwork, going as far as to
hang blank, store - bought
canvases in the gallery.
Stella's early stripe paintings demonstrate Stella's acute awareness
of the issue
of objecthood insofar as those paintings explicitly took painting about as far as it could go (without being a
blank expanse
of stretched
canvas hung on the wall) toward objecthood without declaring their existence as mere objects.