Co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group, Burgoyne Diller described abstraction as “the ideal realm of harmony, stability and order in which every form and spatial interval could be controlled and measured.” His practice, which focused on the precise placement of geometric forms and primary colour on a white backdrop, took inspiration from the Dutch […]
British/Canadian, b. 1951
Archival inkjet prints
2015
Collection of the artist
The photographs in this exhibition are the result of a two-day encounter with the same pair of whales (a male and female) taken at Challenger Bank, a seamount 15 miles off the south-west of Bermuda, in March 2015. Each encounter, which took place on two successive days, lasted over two hours, during which time Andrew […]
Synonymous with the Op Art movement, British artist Bridget Riley uses dynamic patterns to make the two-dimensional picture plane vibrate, disorientating the viewer. In 1964, Riley was included in New Generation at the Whitechapel Gallery, London alongside David Hockney, and in the seminal exhibition The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art, New York […]
British/Canadian, b.1951
Archival inkjet print
2015
Collection of the artist
The vertical scars on the right-hand side of the fluke of this whale are likely to have been caused by lobster lines and traps. Stevenson estimates that half the whales he sees have entanglement scars. Humpbacks are curious and tactile animals and often rub their bodies against sargassum. Sadly, today this means that they also […]
One of the most important and prolific British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, David Hockney is synonymous withthe flat planes and bright shades of his early paintings, which captured the sun-drenched idyll of 1960s California, epitomised by his Swimming Pool series (1963-67). Working in acrylic, these works emphasised the two-dimensional quality of the […]
British/Canadian, b. 1951
Archival inkjet print
2015
Collection of the artist
The pair of whales featured in this photographic series are unusual in that one has black pectoral fins, and the other’s pectoral fins are white. Stevenson estimates that less than 5% of whales seen in Bermuda have black pectoral fins. However, it is the reverse in the North Pacific where almost all of the humpback […]
Born in New York, Paul Brach originally began painting in an Abstract Expressionist style, having met many of the artists in the movement at NYC’s notorious Cedar Tavern, before moving towards Minimalism in the late 1950s. He began showing at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1957 when it opened and went on […]
British/Canadian, b. 1951
Archival inkjet print
2015
Collection of the artist
Humpbacks are often spotted in pairs. The females usually approach Stevenson first, learning to trust him as, like their own offspring, they see that he stays close to his ‘mother’. “I’m always beside the boat and that is a point of reference for them,” he explains. “If they know where the boat is, they know […]
Hungarian, 1906-1997
Wood relief wall sculpture
1967
Edition 17/50
Victor Vasarely was born in Hungary. He studied at the Mühely academy, which focused on the applied arts and was often referred to as the Bauhaus of Budapest. It was modelled on the German school and offered classes on the works of Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Josef Albers. In 1930, Vasarely left Budapest for […]
British/Canadian, b 1951
Archival inkjet print
2015
Collection of the artist
This male whale can be identified by the battle scars on him, which are the result of fighting with other males. They are jealous creatures and fight aggressively over the females, who are much more passive. “The whales have barnacles on them, and these are the scrapes from his opponent’s barnacles,” explains Stevenson. “You can […]
