The Redfern Gallery, London, 2015 | Softcover, 60pp | 22.5 x 26.5 cm | First Edition
Catalogue published to accompany Neil Stokoe’s exhibition at The Redfern Gallery, London. Spanning works from the early 1960s onwards, it charts the artist’s distinctive vision: bold, psychologically charged interiors inhabited by figures rendered in saturated, preternatural colour.
Stokoe’s paintings carry a cinematic intensity - fluorescent rooms, unnerving perspectives and detached, alienated human presences caught somewhere between theatre and nightmare. Often compared to contemporaries such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, Stokoe forged a more architectural path, using light and colour to both seduce and disturb. His works were pictorially complex - unmistakably of their time, yet shadowed by darker psychological undercurrents that set them apart from the era’s dominant mood.
The catalogue includes an interview with Neil Stokoe and art historian Martin Hammer, a detailed artist biography and 25 full-page colour plates of major works such as Seated Man and Woman I (1963–66) and Figure with Black Couch (1968).
Very good condition: Light handling wear to covers. Interior crisp, binding firm. A scratch to page 33 caused subsequent colour transfer on the following five pages (on the white reverse side of the plates; the plates themselves are unaffected).
