Richard Forster is known for his meticulous, photo-realistic pencil drawings, examples of which are in distinguished collections worldwide including TATE London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
In recent years Forster’s subject matter this has focussed on a personal triangulation that takes in his own upbringing on a housing estate in Teesside in early 80s, the suburban American housing phenomenon epitomised by Levittown in the immediate post war years, and the phenomenon of Ostalgie prompted by the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989. Thirty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is this last subject that comes to the fore in a new body of work.
OST..! is a deep exploration of place and otherness which sees Forster returning to working in sculpture as well as on paper.