Talk and Exhibition: Another Triumph of Painting – Wendy Vincent and Geoffrey Armstrong

Strauss & Co invites you to preview the selling-exhibition Another Triumph of Painting: The Work of Wendy Vincent and Geoffrey Armstrong running from 9 – 30 June 2025.

The doomsday cry of the ‘death of painting’ has been heard periodically over the centuries, first in the wake of the invention of photography in the mid-19^th century, and more recently,in the context of the so-called dematerialisation of art in the late-1960s, favour falling toConceptual, Performance, and Installation Art movements at that time. Post-modernism of the early 1980s has seen the pendulum swinging back to painting. The Saatchi Gallery celebrated its resurrection in a series of landmark exhibitions, collectively called, The Triumph of Painting. 

Wendy Vincent and Geoffrey Armstrong share the renewed interest in the art of oil painting. They are part of a compelling and eclectic group of painters who have emerged internationally since the 1990s. The meaning of the term may not be as clear as it once was, but painting still entails the covering of a surface with pigments. Experimenting with new materials, techniques and processes, such as done by Vincent and Armstrong, the modern-day painter amply demonstrates the diversity and resources of painting and its vital contribution to the contemporary art scene.

Wendy Vincent is better known for her graphic work, having printed with legendary master printer Egon Guenther and teaching printmaking at Wits Technikon. Her painting is a synthesis of the natural and the abstract, executed in a phenomenal colour palette.

Geoffrey Armstrong is better known as a sculptor, evident in the magnificent wooden sculptural forms on exhibition, emanating organically out of felled tree trunks. Equally noteworthy, the collaborative paintings on which both Vincent and Armstrong worked.

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Join us on Wednesday, 18 June 2025 at 10:00 for 10:30 for a talk on the exhibition by Senior Art Specialist Wilhelm van Rensburg.