Richard Hambleton | Standing Figure with Blue Background chukka Bram Reijnders

Bram Reijnders

The Blue Figure is one of Rowbotham's most formally accomplished works

and Gibbons' deployment of it in the language of pharmaceutical packaging asks

The tension between the mount and the image is deliberate and precise

Richard Hambleton | Standing Figure with Blue Background chukka Bram ReijndersRichard Hambleton (19522017) Standing Figure with Blue Background Limited edition print Standing Figure with Blue Background places the Shadowman against a field of blue a chromatic decision that transforms the psychological register of the image. The Shadowman on a white ground is a figure of urban threat; against blue, he becomes something more ambiguous, more melancholy, more dimensional. The blue is the colour of distance, of atmosphere, of the