Saul Leither: An Unfinished World
MK Gallery (until 2nd June 2024)
I went up to the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes the other day with Rob Verrill to see their exhibition of Saul Leither’s photographs and paintings. I was particularly attracted to his photographs of scenes that he had distorted and partly hidden using veils of rain drops, snow flakes, soft focused objects and foreground silhouettes that take up the majority of a composition. He cheekily broke those formal compositional rules that photographers often talk about by cropping in interesting ways more akin to abstract painting.
So many of his works referenced, consciously or subconsciously, painters of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as seemingly inspiring contemporary artists since. I took the following Saul Leither photographs at the exhibition and have juxtaposed them with some works by other artists who came to my mind.
