Royal Academy artist returns to Bridport. Between Heaven & Hell is a first exhibition collaboration between father and son Albert and Jack Duplock.
Bridport Arts Centre director, Chris Huxley said, “We’re delighted to hold this exhibition by Albert and Jack who both have connections with this area. Their style is quite different but they both use bold colours.  Most of the work in the exhibition is unframed as they wish to show their paintings in the raw.”

Albert (originally from Sunderland) is a well-known artist in West Dorset having been resident in the area throughout the 1980’s and 90’s. His last solo show Lets Go Down To The Beach & Play was in 2002 and proved incredibly popular.

After Albert moved to Cornwall in 2003, the themes in his work and style of presentation have remained much the same: big colourful depictions of men and women in relation to the sea and the landscape of the South West. Some of his more recent paintings have taken on a more allegorical feel and there is also a slight ambiguity that creeps in to some of his later pictures. Albert currently lives and works in St Just, West Cornwall.

In contrast to his father’s work, Jack Duplock’s paintings have an altogether more sinister air about them, and his work is also currently being exhibited at the Cyan Broan Gallery in New York (546 W29th Street).  His preoccupations centre more on malign energies seeming to emanate from some kind of post-apocalyptic future. The work is quite startling dealing as it does with recurring themes of disease and decay. 

Jack’s painting career started on foundation at Weymouth College before he went on to Yeovil College, Southampton and eventually the Royal Academy in London where he gained an MA in Fine Art. Back in the early 1990’s Jack spent a fortnight on work experience at Bridport Arts Centre under then Director Caroline Corfe.

The exhibition can be seen from Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10am – 4pm with free admission

The father and son team will be giving a talk on their paintings at Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday, March 3 at 3pm with free admission.