Saturday 8 October 2022, 10am–4pm, OTO Project Space
To coincide with the release of his debut LP, Loud Object, on our in-house OTOroku label, we're thrilled to present the first solo exhibition from visual artist and musician, Billy Steiger.
Steiger's artistic and musical practices have always run in tandem, with a symbiotic blurring of the lines being present right from his first release, Recordings, drawings and photographs from in and around Frîdd Newydd, in 2016.
Utilising different media forms, Steiger's work seems to come from a place of visceral spontaneity simultaeneously rooted in a process of highly considered refinement. His paintings and drawings playfully interrogate notions of form and shape, stripping away the unnecessary to reveal the suggestive and totemic forms within. In his distinctive line-work and dynamic painting, there are sometimes echoes of the expressive figures of Philip Guston, in others the fragmentary, chimerical assemblages of Franz Josef Kline or Adolph Gottlieb. But Steiger's work is very much rooted in the here and now; a highly present approach at once elusive and charged with meaning.
This exhibition brings together works created alongside the making of Loud Object ahead of the album launch show in the Cafe this evening and also represents a rare event in the OTO Project Space.
Billy Steiger was born in Howth on the 16th December, 1986. Now he plays the violin.
“Then he sat down by a pond and began to play a tune. As he played, the most extraordinary thing happened. One by one the fish in the pond began to jump out and fly about in the air. And what is more, they were all different colours and they were singing to the music.”
Patrick, Quentin Blake.
https://billysteiger.bandcamp.com/
