Challenging exhibition from artist with humorous touch

A SERIES of challenging and eye-catching paintings are stopping people in their tracks at a Hull art gallery.

Faculties, by city-based artist Dominic Heffer, is a collection of more than 60 pieces being shown at Kingston Art Gallery in Humber Street.

Two of them, a 13-minute film and its accompanying painting, which are both entitled The Canvas is Not the Territory, were recently shown at the Institute of General Semantics in New York.

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Martin H Levinson, the president of the institute, said: “Through the language of painting, Dom Heffer’s work points towards the importance of self-critique and reflective elements in all fields of endeavour. His work is arresting, thought provoking, humorous and kinetic, and combines a feeling of urgency with a sense of great deliberation.”

Mr Heffer, 35, said he hoped it would also be enjoyed by those who were less frequent visitors to art galleries.

“The paintings are hopefully quite exciting and quite anarchic, there’s a lot to see in them,” he said. “There’s humour in there as well – they don’t take themselves too seriously.”

Visitors can also become part of the display by having their comments posted on a display of pipes on the wall. One wrote: “Looks good, feels good, and by God it does me good.”

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