Nigel Milsom: Judo-House part 9 (birdland)

It is with great pleasure that The Commercial presents Nigel Milsom – Judo-House part 9 (birdland) and to announce the artist’s representation by the gallery.

 Nigel Milsom is a painter of abstractions that he dresses in attributes of real life. Formal contestations within each painting and within the exhibition (light versus dark, motion versus stasis, ruin versus heroism, advantage and disadvantage) slip into more complex and more personal structures. Judo-House part 9 (birdland) is part social history, stories of coal pits and their soft flesh and feathered inhabitants, part family album and pantheon of aspiring contenders. Pathos of workers, qualifying by weight, punching above anonymity and above humility. A dialectic of unskilled champions.