Accession Code: wu0802 Title: "01.17" Date completed: 2001 Medium: Painting Material: Oil Height (mm): 2000 Width (mm): 1000 Depth (mm): 15 Inscription: n/a Location Name: International Manufacturing Centre Location Description: Phase III Location Floor: 2

In Impey's work the formal, narrative, sensual and expressive qualities of painting are rejected. His focus is on the process of making and he employs a rigorous procedure which, nevertheless, allows for the intrusion of chance. This example is based on a fine grid of lines on which marks are painstakingly applied, partially removed and repeatedly overpainted. The effect for the viewer is of a mysterious, unstable surface with shimmering layers of light and shade. These are contemplative works inviting calm attention.

01.17 was purchased in 2002 by the Friends of the Mead.