Form i Structure. David Tremlett
The selection of drawings are all about ‘solid form’ drawn in differing ways. My references always on sculptural thinking, architectural ideas and their different locations where I find them. These forms then transfer into Structures which can be anything from ‘works on paper’ interiors (walls / ceilings floors), exteriors (walls / buildings) or 3 dimensional objects.
David Tremlett, 2025
The exhibition Form | Structure presents a selection of recent works by the British artist David Tremlett (St. Austell, Cornwall), made with pastel and graphite on paper. In these pieces, Tremlett continues exploring solid form, spatial balance, and the connection between drawing, sculpture, and architecture.
Each work shows rounded and abstract forms that, despite their flat appearance, are constructed with a clear three-dimensional awareness. The volumes, almost floating, are arranged in rigorous and silent compositions where color—intense in some, absent in others—assumes a structural rather than decorative role. This play between surface and depth, between visual weight and geometric lightness, reveals an architectural logic that evokes both real spaces and imagined structures.
Tremlett’s trajectory, which ranges from Land Art to monumental murals on public buildings, maintains in this show his essential language: a refined synthesis that investigates the sculptural potential of drawing. According to the artist, these forms “transfer into structures that can be works on paper as well as walls, ceilings, floors, or three-dimensional volumes.”
Form | Structure invites contemplation of how abstraction can also be concretion, how a line of pastel can become a mental wall, and how, even in the silence of paper, an interior architecture can emerge.
His extensive career includes solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Pecci Museum in Prato (Italy), and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1992, Tremlett was nominated for the Turner Prize for his drawn murals, which can be seen in various places around the world, such as the Palazzo Butera in Palermo (Sicily, Italy).
