A show of new paintings from Martin Poppelwell.

Things accumulate each day, presenting themselves as options to take ideas from, actually most ‘things’ are best ignored. Over the past months Martin has been drawing incessantly, bending and meshing the atoms of daily life into patterns and sequences of line, colour, information, diagram and stuff. The exhibition sort of announces a point in time where this is shown, laid up and bared. This combination of work while mindful of our present, in particular aims for a type of beauty that given time reveals a unique-ish logic of its very own.

houses are much more indebted than in 1991
painting work for whanganui
underthinking the thing
may have made stuff up
cold, hungry, angry, begging, criminal, deformed, irredescent with reasons…
scapegoat..both source and savior, taint and cure
anne carson on sokrates
a hell of a lot of people are doing nothing at the moment, so at least that’s something
orange roughy
coral studies, bamboo coral in particular
sauerkraut and meat bun
der springende punkt (the leaping point)
frankly full of beans
this has done nothing for my career
ok i’m ready now
greenland salami reverberates around the world
star spangled banger
poetry takes it out of you (james schuyler)
no financing of course
are you thinking about anything while doing this
who stole my u boat
the big cheese of big cheeses
burlesque pumpkin
and the reason for this was probably that
in the dark most of the time
attitudes become form (drawing)
political unconsciousnessless
our motto remains always bigger / better
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desert boots
always out for the whole hog
strange this mixture of solid and liquid
its the town of my youth
sovereignty undermined richard II
maria lassnig
look at all the mess, who is going to clean it up
please and thank you

Martin Poppelwell (Leuchtturm 1917 diary notes September 2025).

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Image:
Notice, I notice nothing, I go on as best I can ..
Oil & acrylic on canvas
 1400x1250mm