The line up of artists include Helen Bermingham, Hannah Rose Dumes, Ebru Duruman, Laura Garcia Karras, Rema Ghuloum, Lauren Anaïs Hussey, Rhiannon Inman-Simpson, Caroline Jackson, Sofia Nifora, Emma Stone-Johnson, Vickie Vainionpää.
"Here is the flux of paint: offering myriad morphic ways to conjure, undermine and combine. There is opticality, trickery and doubt; hesitation, persistence and devotion. Forms dance back and forth in likeness between the vegetative, mineral and bodily. Slippery, lively things that are not discrete entities, but porous and interconnected. Circulatory systems of movement and transformation create gut-like metabolisms: matter turns into meaning, seeming into being, and back again. A range of techniques and technologies – digital, mechanical, handmade – often used in representational painting, combine with expressive impulses of gestural abstraction and the outcomes of material processes, producing meeting points that seem to bridge dimensions.
Curving, wriggly shapes offer premises for ways of thinking that are unwieldy and entwined. In some places, these shapes are the marks of bodily movement: gestural sweeps through space. In others, gestures are present as images of themselves: a kind of mediation of a scribble. Elsewhere, they correspond with a more representational relationship to organic forms – describing body parts, plants, environmental features.
In this group of paintings, coiled, braided, overlapping marks enfold and compress, becoming held together in interdependent states of delicate balance. In continual relational shifts, they traverse surface and space, and shift nimbly from abstraction to recognisable form. Responsive to other marks and the confines of the rectangle, they seem to be both conscious of the frame and to reach out beyond the edges of the canvas, tickling the world beyond".
Excerpt from exhibition text, A Curving Thought, by Bryony Bodimeade.
