LOOKING FOR MR SCHWITTERS (PB)

Jennifer Potter resurrects the pivotal artist Kurt Schwitters and places him firmly in The Lake District, where he lived as a penniless refugee in the years after the Second World War. Renowned for incorporating found objects and rubbish into his art, Schwitters let the spirit of the Lakes creep into his work, dashing off a stream of collages, sculptures, landscapes, portraits, flowers, abstracts and assemblages, which he sold or bartered for essentials. Potter adopts a thread of memory and personal connections to tell a wider story about the process of making, and seeing, art.