Harry Malkin

4th March 2011 – 28th March 2011

Harry Malkin’s first hand depictions of mining are the finest in the UK, endowing torchlit moments of toil with a muscular theaticality. Cheeks and eye sockets are ink black, shoulders are slick crescents, and amidst the trembling chiarscuro the figures quicken and bristle in their brutal work. Their poises and movements are perfectly calibrated with the instinct and knowledge hewn from many decades’ worth of witnessing and working more than one mile deep in underground.