Tomma Abts

Untitled no. 6

2008

In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: Sixty Years

Free entry

Artist: Tomma Abts born 1967
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 841 × 594 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased with funds provided by the Goss-Michael Foundation 2010
Reference: T13041

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Abts works intuitively, without a fixed idea of the finished work. She mainly makes paintings that involve a long process of layering and readjustment. Drawings such as this are more spontaneous. She sets herself certain limitations and chooses particular colours, and then is guided only by the internal logic of each composition. Critic and curator Bob Nickas has described the result as ‘an image of the process of thought, the triangulation of the hand and the eye and the mind’.

Gallery label, May 2019

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