Andrew Lambirth

Light and shade

<strong>Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age</strong><br /> <em>Pallant House Gallery, Chichester until 12 October</em> <strong>David Tress: Chasing Sublime Light</strong><br /> <em>Petworth House, West Sussex, until 29 July</em>

issue 26 July 2008

Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester until 12 October

David Tress: Chasing Sublime Light
Petworth House, West Sussex, until 29 July

Colin Self (born 1941) is one of the unsung talents of the English art world, a maverick who made intensely original Pop art in the 1960s and then rusticated himself in Norfolk, where he continues to make all manner of art from the satiric to the pastoral. He is not the easiest of characters, and the last time a major museum exhibition of his work was planned, he cancelled it at the last moment. So Pallant House must be congratulated on achieving such a full account of an immensely distinguished and largely unknown artist. The catalogue accompanying the show (£19.95 in paperback) is also the first substantial publication on the artist.

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