Elms Lester’s Painting Rooms

9 out of 10 times I find Art Galleries full of rubbish, whether it’s mindless space fillers or gimmicky foundation art school crap, I always leave feeling bored and frustrated. The art world is constantly using trigger words and abstract terms that sound impressive but rarely mean anything. It’s what I call talking in subtitles, set’s a premise for something interesting but doesn’t follow through. I like all the artists Elms Lester’s represents including Ron English, Phil Frost, Anthony Lister and Adam Neate. I know art is subjective but at least here the artists demonstrate true skill which you can see rather than being presented with an‘artists statement’ which all read the same “…. it’s a Freudian juxtaposition of sexuality and a bunch of other elaborate sentences I have so cleverly strung together to make up for the fact that I have no talent whatsoever”.