Always On My Mind (Part 2) opens Thursday 31st of August 2023 and features the work of 16 artists including:
John Peter Askew
Q1) What’s always on your mind
these days and is it having an impact on your art work?
“To build a better world. I am
interested in representing peoples’ better selves, in the belief that we have
the ability to become better too.”
Image above: 'Swans' by John Peter Askew
Q2) Q) The National Brain Appeal provide much-needed funds to support The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery and the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology – together known as Queen Square. This is one of the world’s leading centres for the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with neurological and neuromuscular conditions. These include stroke, multiple sclerosis, brain cancer, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and dementia. Have you or your loved ones ever suffered with any of these things?
“My
father suffered from Parkinson’s and it was massively debilitating in very
painful ways. It is not an exaggeration to say that the last eighteen
months of his life were a living nightmare for him.”
Q3)
When the critic Jerry Saltz was recently asked what it is he’s looking for in
art he answered “A sense of necessity, someone working in their own voice,
doing what they can’t not do.” Do you relate to his way of thinking and do you
think your own work is something you just can’t not do?
“The ultimate goal of my
art is the exploration of beauty which is essential for my own wellbeing”
The opening party for Always on my Mind Part 2 is Thursday 31st August 6pm till 9pm at Fitzrovia Gallery, 139 Whitfield Street W1T 5EN
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