Etching on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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E.J. Power
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-loker-1524" aria-label="More by John Loker" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Loker</a>
Shifts Gate
Presented by E.J. Power through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
architecture
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
gate
landscape
landscape - non-specific
movement
sequence
time
townscapes / man-made features
universal concepts
paper print etching
Shifts (Gate)
image: 464 × 394 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999964" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">E.J. Power</a> through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
<p><b>P11007</b> SHIFTS (GATE) 1978
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<br/>Inscribed ‘John Loker 78’ bottom right and ‘Shifts (gate)’ and ‘41/50’
<br/>Etching, printed at the Print Workshop and published by the artist, 18 3/4×15 1/2 (46.4×39.4)
<br/>Presented by E.J. Power 1980
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<br/>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> is related to the series of ‘Shifts’ <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> made from the mid to late 1970s. Four <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of the same title as the print were exhibited in 1978 (Park Square Gallery, Leeds). In all these works Loker expands the idea of using a multiple viewpoint, a time element, to construct images of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> features. His formal vocabulary of marks is used, often against a grid, to convey the viewer's movement through landscape in a series of stages with the consequent shifts of emphasis and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/perspective" title="Glossary definition for 'Perspective'"><span>perspective</span></a>.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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architecture emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities gate landscape landscape - non-specific movement sequence time townscapes / man-made features universal concepts