No Man’s Land

August 5th – September 4th, 2022

Curated by Jason Clay Lewis

The Royal @ RSOAA is pleased to present No Man’s Land: Visions of the Glaciers of Spitsbergen, a solo exhibition curated by Jason Clay Lewis featuring artist Frank Webster.

In June of 2022 the New York-based artist Frank Webster participated in the summer expedition of the Arctic Circle Residency — a voyage around the Svalbard archipelago of the High Arctic in a refurbished three-masted barquentine. During the voyage he documented the epicly beautiful but rapidly disappearing glaciers of the island of Spitsbergen, photographing and painting them plein air. We are pleased to present a selection of Webster’s working photographs, opening a window onto the artist’s meticulous studio process.

Read a journal of the expedition written by the artist on Two Coats of Paint.