Small Paintings

Small Paintings has been extended until Saturday 1 May 20201.TORCH Gallery presents Small Paintings,
an exhibition of recent works by Mike Pratt curated by Brinkman &
Bergsma. These paintings are a mix between light, single-layered
pictures and heavily worked surfaces. In order to create balanced
images, Pratt often applies and adds layers, like silkscreened prints
over painted colours. These saturated and textured surfaces are so
tactile, one is almost tempted to touch them. He adds another layer
of meaning to the works by assigning them titles like Sink and
Pillow, which invite the viewer to create their own associations.Mike Pratt (1987, UK) lives and works
in northern England. He completed a two-year postgraduate programme
at De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2014. In 2016 he won the prestigious
Royal Award for Modern Painting (Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije
Schilderkunst). He has exhibited in the Netherlands and all over the
United Kingdom, among other places.