James Drinkwater paintings are physical, muscular, messy – articulating something that Picasso started – blending nameable and unnameable or recognisable imagery with nondescript painted signs, dancing in a frenetic ballet of attack after attack, sometimes confounding sometimes parting the seas of expression to a clear cohesive rhythm where painted cacophony reigns, not over matter but out of matter. Personal, familial, local of somewhere faraway and right around the corner.”

Julian Schnabel

ThisrichandcomprehensivecollectionofJamesDrinkwater’swork also features the artist in conversation with Ineke Dane, an essay by Louise Martin-Chew and foreword by Nicholas Thompson.