A_Place Gallery is pleased to present Array, a solo exhibition by Isaac Willis.
☞ Images from the Freydal Tournament Book, an incomplete allegorical account of emperor Maximillian I’s own participation in a series of jousting tournaments in the guise of the tale's eponymous hero, Freydal, early 16th Century. ☞ An image of a weather vane with a horse from a photograph taken in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. ☞ An image of a weather vane from a photograph taken in my grandad’s garden, Sunbury-on-Thames. ☞ A Saint with a Fortress and a Banner’ Girolamo da Santacroce, 1512-1525, once thought to be Saint George, more likely Terentius, patron Saint of Pesaro, Italy. ☞ Painting of Samurai-figure smoking.
☞ Silverpoint drawing of ‘A Woman’ Robert Campin, 1435, we don’t know who they are. ☞ Painting of ‘Lamia’, John William Waterhouse, 1905, inspired by Keats’ poem about a bridegroom who discovers on his wedding night that his bride is a monstrous half-serpent who preys on young men. ☞ Painted stalking wolves. ☞ Painted image from an Ebay listing of early Disney’s Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. ☞ Painting of a Cowboy-figure smoking.
☞ Painted still from Winsor McCay’s work of early animated film ‘How a Mosquito Operates’, 1912. ☞ Painted still from Winsor McCay’s work of early animated film ‘Gertie the Dinosaur’, 1914. ☞ Painting of the cursor for the undead (The Scourge) campaign from video game Warcraft 3. ☞ Painting of the cursor for the human campaign from video game Warcraft 3. ☞ Paintings of stars taken from the image of a tomb in a book titled ‘Egyptian Painting’. ☞ Painting of a Viking-figure smoking.
Text by Isaac Willis.
Array III, (2026), 90 x 120 cm, oil on aluminium, drawing pins
Array II, (2026), 90 x 120 cm, oil and silverpoint on aluminium, drawing pins
Array I, (2026), 90 x 120 cm, oil on aluminium, drawing pins
Array (Adder), (2026), 27 x 35.5 cm, oil on aluminium
