Artists

Harminder Judge

Press release

A collaborative exhibiton between The Sunday Painter & Matt’s Gallery

Harminder Judge’s A Ghost Dance is a single exhibition of new work across both Matt’s Gallery and The Sunday Painter in South London. Located just 10 minutes walk from each other, the two spaces are pleased to present an exhibition in two parts. The galleries have worked collaboratively to help Judge realise a new body of work that brings the artist’s wall-based plaster pieces into dialogue with new developments with free standing and floor-based sculptures.

A Ghost Dance references funeral rites, processions and the presence of ghosts and spirits. It draws on persistent themes in Judge’s work: life, death, ritual and rebirth, creating parallels between the deconstructed body and the cosmos. Judge is preoccupied with physical and spiritual transformation - a body becoming ash, material becoming immaterial, the physical becoming metaphysical. The show revisits early elements of his practice, extends recent developments in his work, and opens up new areas of exploration. His work sets into motion dialogues between Western Modernism, Indian Neo Tantric painting, American Transcendental painting and familial funeral traditions drawn from rural Punjab.