B.

Grant Banbury, exhibitions officer at the Canterbury Society of Arts and a well known young artist in the Christchurch community, is the next artist featuring in our Artists Project series.

Since his first exhibition of honours works at the Brooke Gifford in 1979 Grant has been concentrating on works on paper. First in the Terrace Drawings series and then in Paper Parcels and Thread Works we saw his manipulation and experimentation with the material nature of paper.

In this new show however he is applying the distinctly personal elements of his own style to a series of larger works on stretched canvases. The new canvas works still have his usual interest in vertical elements and the interrelationships of horizontal and vertical forms. They have also inherited his use of squeezed paint and of finely threaded thin cotton threads but this time there is a new sparseness and spaciousness which will greatly interest those closely following his career.

('Grant Banbury Artists Project', Bulletin, No.40, July/August 1985, p.6)