Richard Livingstone’s intensely charged imagery acknowledges death’s irrefutable, writes Claire Dalton of the artist’s retrospective at the Gordon Gallery, Derry
Born in Derry in 1951, Richard Livingstone felt a deep connection to the area he rarely left, and throughout his career pushed himself ‘to make work that’s local…and relative to one’s life experience … but that can also travel.’ Although trained initially as a printmaker, he experimented with other media including sculpture, painting and even performance art in his desire to connect to the world through his art ‘I try to make work that relates to my personal experiences, that I believe to be common to most people, things like death and the fragmentation of modern life’. Examples of his varied and diverse output are to be found in the Gordon Gallery exhibition in April, part two of a retrospective held after his death at the age of fifty-nine.
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