Frank Bowling's vibrant maps at Hales Gallery

Frank Bowling is a British Guyanese-born artist who has been somewhat neglected in the UK, possibly because he lives in New York a lot of the time. Hales Gallery in Shoreditch is showing three of his "Map Paintings" from 1967-1971, shown in the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. His later works are purely abstract, but these are based on maps of the world and reference the Caribbean and the African diaspora, but like his later "poured" paintings they make use of exceptionally vivid colouring and freshness, evocative of his tropical birthplace.