A W
1999-2004
Painting, 2 x (120 x 88 x 6.5 cm).
Materials: diptych, oil paint on canvas, framed under glass, brass letters mounted on the glass
Collection: Courtesy Annie Gentils Gallery.
"The ‘cosmic’ dimension reappears in Andrew’s work in different disguises, in the use of the letters A and W […]. This work consists of a pair of black oil paintings, each glazed so that we see our own reflection, each with the letter A or W in brass screwed into the glass, and a rectangular frame composed of wooden pieces jointed to create a ‘circular’ movement. A and W are, to be sure, the artist’s own initials, sometimes signed as ‘Dr A Wing’ (a pun on ‘drawing’ and ‘angel’s wing’); but they are also the alpha and the omega so often inscribed in the image of an open book, referring to the divine as both beginning and end – eternity – and alluded to in the design of A W’s frame."
(Jean Fisher, ‘Poetic Machinations’, in: A Small Box of Air Trapped and Drawn - Ria Pacquée and Andrew Webb, Campo Santo, 1999)
