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2 unusual facts about Piers Wardle


Piers Wardle

Wardle was perhaps the first British painter to experiment artistically with the ideas of Benoit Mandelbrot and other 'chaos' mathematicians, exploring in his work how 'the complexity associated with natural and organic forms can be generated, in appearance at least, by simple rules' (from Piers Wardle's catalogue for an exhibition held at the Pomeroy Purdy Gallery in April 1989).

Fry and the Duchess of Westminster provided much of the sponsorship while the other artists included Gilbert & George, Gary Hume, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin and Darren Coffield.



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