| exhibition archive The Discerning Eye Exhibition 2006 15th exhibition ~ 16 to 26 November 2006 The Discerning Eye is a very special exhibition. Not only is it unusual in showcasing small works, it's also unique among juried exhibitions in forcing its selectors to stand up for their personal taste. There's none of the usual horse-trading or responsibility shirking – you each get a wall and a spotlight, and have to live with the consequences. This is a very good thing, and there should be more of it. Too many public gallery shows of contemporary art are the outcome of selection by committee, and as Rodin rightly observed: "As soon as a few people, however intelligent or expert they may be, come together to judge works submitted to them, they will never agree on anything other than a totally neutral work". Art has always been a matter of personal taste; when it's handed down by authority from on high with proclamations of why we're supposed to like it, we lose the habit of exercising our judgment. A show like The Discerning Eye helps to keep us in trim. In art, big isn't necessarily clever, nor is difficult necessarily good. I make no apology for the fact that in making my selection I wasn't looking for 'conceptual rigour' or any of the other rather punishing criteria one is meant to apply to post-modern art. I chose works because I liked them – and I liked them because they seemed to say something to me about the artist's experience of the world we live in. I hope they also say something to you, though I realise that what they say to you may he different. But if they speak at all they'll be giving a voice to the sorts of artists who – in our world of big noisy public art – are too seldom heard. | 6/1 | Warm sky, tide out | £450 |
| 6/2 | Minds eye (series no. 1) | £340 |
| 6/3 | Bankside reflections, River Sarthe | £640 |
| 6/5 | Poltesco (black rocks) | £900 |
| 6/7 | Confirmation outfit | £2,200 |
| 6/8 | Landscape shoes 2 | £1,600 |
| 6/9 | Corset and boots | £2,200 |
| 6/16 | La petite mort 10 | £240 |
| 6/17 | La petite mort 12 | £240 |
| 6/18 | La petite mort 17 | £240 |
| 6/19 | Puzzle series - hidden game | £1,400 |
| 6/20 | Perfect day - Mallorca | £575 |
| 6/23 | Evening light, Ingleville | £600 |
| 6/24 | 5.30 am 1st July 2006: Clematis and Copper Beech | £300 |
| 6/25 | Ouro Preto, Brazil | £475 |
| 6/26 | Sleeping figure, Baia de Todos os Santos, Salvador | £475 |
| 6/27 | Samba dancers, La Goa de Parnamirin | £475 |
| 6/28 | Juggler, Rio Vermelho, Salvador | £475 |
| 6/29 | Ipanema Futbol, Rio de Janeiro | £475 |
| 6/30 | Fisherman and kite surfers Ceara | £475 |
| 6/32 | Rocks at Morbihan | £325 |
| 6/37 | Pink room and bed | £3,500 |
| 6/38 | Pink room and pram | £3,500 |
| 6/39 | Tiny purple room 1 | £3,500 |
| 6/40 | Tiny purple room 4 | £3,500 |
| 6/46 | Agerman childhood | £12,000 |
| 6/47 | Venus and Mars | £12,000 |
| 6/49 | Travels in Iran, Nr Kerman | £450 |
| 6/53 | Greenstead Church, Ongar, Essex | £150 |
| 6/58 | A trip to Leyre, in the Pyrenees | £3,500 |
| 6/60 | Ciao lovely Mopsy | £4,750 |
| 6/62 | Across the Hope Valley 2 | £2,800 |
| 6/64 | What's occurring here? | £750 |
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