The two men had met before the pandemic: but it was in the forced lockdown and isolation induced by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, speaking studio to studio, that Geddes and Selway developed a creative friendship that quickly flourished into collaboration.
‘You had to occupy one space, you had to slow down,’ Selway says of lockdown, ‘which allowed these conversations to grow.’
The exhibition features the paintings from Stewart Geddes and music by Philip Selway, for his new solo music album of the same name – his 3rd venture outside Radiohead – which is due for release in February 2023.
‘All art constantly aspires to the condition of music,’ wrote the Victorian art critic Walter Pater. But here, in the Strange Dance project, are music and painting that are purposely receptive to the other medium – following each other’s lead, dancing in the darkness, dancing in the squares.
