John Nixon
EPW: Silver
27 August - 3 October 2026
Begun in 1995, John Nixon’s EPW: Silver developed over the following decade and a half as a sustained exploration of the monochrome, materiality and light. In Nixon’s words, ‘silver is opaque and reflective, a non-colour in the sense that we know colours to be’. Inspired by sunlight playing across silver-painted industrial rooftops, these paintings situate Nixon within an orbit of modernist experiment—Constructivism, Minimalism, the ZERO group and Fontana’s Spatialism. From tactile effects on rough hessian to smoother applications on MDF and canvas, their glimmering surfaces might evoke the infinity of the cosmos or the flash of sunlight on snow, while conveying above all the pure force of abstraction.
Sue Cramer, August 2026
enamel paint on MDF and on hardboard discs
600 x 450 mm
enamel paint on wood and dowel on MDF
600 x 900 mm
enamel paint, coins, bottle tops, washers, grit on oriented strand board (OSB)
450 x 600 mm
enamel and broken glass on hessian 280 x 280 mm
enamel paint and bottle tops on Masonite with wooden bracing
355 x 280 mm
enamel paint on hessian on plywood 900 x 600 mm
enamel paint on MDF
910 x 610 mm
enamel paint, coins, bottle tops, washers, metal tacks and broken glass on OSB
450 x 600 mm
enamel paint on tile with wooden bracing
300 x 300 mm
enamel paint and dowel on MDF
900 x 600 mm
enamel paint and grit on MDF
900 x 600 mm
enamel paint and coins on MDF
600 x 900 mm
enamel paint and bottle tops on MDF
450 x 600 mm
enamel paint on oriented strand board (OSB)
900 x 600 mm or 600 x 900 mm
enamel paint and grit on MDF
600 x 450 mm
enamel paint and hessian on MDF with wooden brace
600 x 455 mm
enamel paint on hessian
610 x 510 mm
enamel paint on wood on plywood 900 x 600 mm
enamel paint on hessian and wood 860 x 150 mm
enamel paint and nails on plywood 456 x 455 mm
enamel paint on hessian
370 x 370 mm
