Sky Studies
Keith Cunningham
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The complete set dedicated to Keith Cunningham's profound engagement with the sky as a site of emotional and visual inquiry.
Executed in a range of media including pastel, ink and watercolour, the studies reveal an artist deeply attuned to the emotional and atmospheric possibilities of light, colour and movement. Some are fleeting impressions; others verge on abstraction, conjuring vast atmospheric spaces or dense, brooding cloud formations.
Organised chronologically and captioned with details of date, size and medium, Keith Cunningham: Sky Studies traces a period of sustained focus and refinement, reflecting on the artist's evolving relationship with landscape and light. The collection also includes a biographical essay, an introductory text providing historical context and critical insight and comprehensive illustrated indexes of the works.
Bringing together over 3,000 full-colour reproductions, the complete set offers a major contribution to Cunningham’s legacy.
Publication:
June 2025
Illustrations:
1488, 1522
Dimensions:
290 x 310 mm
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
978-1-911736-02-8, 978-1-911736-27-1
No. of pages:
416, 416
Keith Cunningham (1929–2014) was born in Sydney, Australia. He worked as a graphic designer before moving to London in 1949 where he studied at the Central School of Design (1949–51, now Central Saint Martins) and the Royal College of Art (1952–55). Cunningham continued to paint, but kept his work private, until the end of his life. At the time of his death, thousands of artworks were discovered at his studio. A selection of his oil paintings was presented in an exhibition at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in London, 2022.
Dr Laura Scalabrella Spada completed her PhD at University College London in the Department of History of Art in 2020. Her research focuses on early modern European art, with a particular emphasis on the body and its processes, boundaries and relations. She has published papers on the politics of corporeality and animation in early modern prints and currently works as an independent researcher.
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