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Frank Bowling: Land of Many Waters, Arnolfini Bristol
Striking art of exploration and experimentation
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FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
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GUYANESE-BORN Frank Bowling moved to London aged 19 in the 1950s and after serving in the RAF went on to study at the Royal College of Art, despite earlier ambitions to be a poet and a writer.
Exhibitions followed and Bowling, frustrated at being pigeonholed as a Caribbean artist, moved to New York in the mid-1960s where he pursued an abstract art influenced by personal memory and history.
His work has been widely exhibited in numerous exhibitions and permanent collections in Europe, Britain and the US and Land of Many Waters features new and recent works demonstrating the continued exploration and experimentation with the painted surface for which he is renowned.
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