Thursday 1st August - Halcyon Gallery News

Introducing New Artist Robert Montgomery

‘For me, the natural world is the ultimate source of inspiration’

– Robert Montgomery

We are proud to announce the representation of renowned artist and poet Robert Montgomery. Scottish-born and London-based, Montgomery is celebrated for his large-scale light works and evocative poems, which bring powerful messages to public spaces around the world. His art, spanning billboard poems, fire poems, woodcuts, paintings, and watercolours, delves into the political and ecological, bridging the digital and natural worlds.

Montgomery’s work is held in collections around the world, including the Albright Knox in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and Yinchuan. In 2022 his work was included in La Suite de l’Histoire at the Musée du Louvre in Paris (the Louvre’s first exhibition of contemporary art).

Join us as we present Montgomery’s artworks in our current exhibition, Songs of the Open Road, at 148 New Bond Street. This exhibition explores the profound connection between landscapes, journeys, and the poetic tradition, showcasing Montgomery’s monumental light works and landscape paintings.

Discover more about Robert Montgomery here ?? https://rb.gy/c115lp

Bob Dylan: On the Road

'I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey… I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home.'

– Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan's landscape paintings are exhibited for the first time at?Songs of the Open Road.?Centring on rural scenes, with vast skies and luscious leafy fields seen as if from the perspective of a car, these works are inspired?by Jack Kerouac's seminal novel,?On the Road. Though absent of figures, there is an undeniable humanity and contentment imbued within them, whether in an isolated spot by the water, or at the edge of a flowering field. Where his previous works focused on bridges and highways as signifiers of freedom, these new works represent the peace and tranquillity that comes with change.

Also on display are a new set of watercolours that expand the existing?Route 66 series. These develop themes of Americana, previously explored in the Beaten Path series. Dylan’s intricately rendered paintings draw our attention to the dormant beauty in otherwise overlooked locations that form the backdrop of daily life.

Explore Dylan's new artworks here ??https://bit.ly/3LKsV8z

Santiago Montoya: On View Now at 29 New Bond Street

‘So, here it is, I give you the instruments of my experience, my life, my sin: I have painted’

– Santiago Montoya

Santiago Montoya is a contemporary Colombian artist who lives and works between Miami, USA and Bogotá, Colombia. He works with diverse media, using paper currency and, more recently, chocolate. Both banknotes and chocolate are loaded mediums, with a complex history rooted in the perception of value.?Montoya’s works are a wry commentary on consumerism and the commodification of art.

Learn more about Santiago Montoya here ?? https://shorturl.at/K5VYv

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