BAMBURY, Stephen, 1951-
Insert Cross IC089321 (Painting)
After studying at the Elam School of Fine Arts in
the 1970s, Stephen Bambury travelled to North
America. There he encountered paintings by the
Russian artist Kazimir Malevich who had
undertaken “a desperate struggle to free art
from the ballast of the objective world” by using
basic motifs: the square, the circle and the
cross. This last shape was a loaded sign but
also an exercise in pure geometry, dividing the
canvas into nine squares. As many geometrical
abstractionists have observed, the cross is the
mother of all grids.