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About Peter de Bolla
Peter de Bolla has been Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics since 2009 at the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. He has been a visiting Professor in Siegen, at Vanderbilt and will be at New York University in the Fall of 2014 and in Uppsala in the fall of 2015. He is Director of the Cambridge Concept Lab in the Cambridge Centre for Digital Knowledge at CRASSH.
His research interests include eighteenth century British cultural history; the history of aesthetics; conceptual history; philosophical aesthetics; digital knowledge.
Megan Rooney: Echoes & Hours
This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world.
In June 2024, Rooney will spend three weeks making a new ‘mural’, painting directly on the walls of one of Kettle’s Yard’s two galleries. In the other gallery a group of new paintings will be exhibited for the first time.
Created in ‘family groups’, the size of the canvases she uses are determined by the reach of her outstretched arms. Vibrant colour and line appear boundless, capturing the ebb and flow of their making, from the use of abrasives to remove pigment to repeated overpainting. Each work tells a compelling story, poetically recalling the real, the remembered and the imagined – inviting visitors into their restless and pleasurable worlds.
