#CIRCAPIPELINE Frank Bowling is known for his pioneering experimentations with paint, including his celebrated ‘map paintings’ (1967–71), which feature vast fields of colour overlaid with stencilled world maps. ‘Understanding Frank’ (2024) originates from a collage created inside Bernard H. Gundlach’s ‘Understanding Numbers’ colouring book for the exhibition ‘Dialects: Diverse Bookworks by Black and Hispanic Artists’ (1980), curated by Horace Brockington. The exhibition brought together artists

Frank Bowling is known for his pioneering experimentations with paint, including his celebrated ‘map paintings’ (1967–71), which feature vast fields of colour overlaid with stencilled maps of the world. ‘Understanding Frank’ (2024) originates from a collage created inside Bernard H. Gundlach’s ‘Understanding Numbers’ colouring book for the exhibition ‘Dialects: Diverse Bookworks by Black and Hispanic Artists’ (1980), curated by Horace Brockington. The exhibition brought together artists of colou

Since the early 1960s, Frank Bowling has explored and expanded the properties and possibilities of paint, influencing generations of painters through his work and writing. Now 84, he still paints every day. Bowling's first solo exhibition covering the entirety of his career opens at Tate Britain on 31 May 2019. In this film he looks back over the years and talks about his movements away from figuration, and towards abstraction. Watch the full film here: http://bit.ly/2Tb3oIS | Tate