Matthew Collings
Softcover | 33.5 x 1 x 24.5 cm | 36 pp
Rocket | 2006
Exhibition catalogue published to accompany an exhibition, at Rocket in 2006, of paintings and drawings made between 1970 and 1973 by the late Jeremy Moon (British, 1934-1973).
These paintings are the ‘mature’work of Jeremy Moon whose career was cut tragically short by a motorcycle accident in November 1973. All of these paintings remained in Moon’s garden studio in Kingston-upon-Thames since his death. Moon’s 1970s paintings show an interest in formal geometric concerns, but simultaneously achieve a wit and playfulness that gives this body of work an astonishing contemporary quality. The paintings from this intense four-year period possess tremendous variety within the restrained parameters that Moon had set himself. The drawings exhibited are all sketches of ideas for paintings and those from 1973 give us a hint of the ‘shaped’ canvases that Moon might have worked on had he lived.
