It’s not hard, gazing at the photographs James Welling has assembled in Thought Objects, to picture their creator holding a paintbrush rather than a camera. The show’s standout work is a striking combination of seascape, screenprint overlay, and abstract coloration whose stippled, almost woody texture defies formal categorization.
The exhibition at MK gallery will track the development of the art form from the 16th century to the present day and will explore how the works ended up in the UK to begin with