4 August to 12 September
The Theory of Two Centres was proposed by St Augustine in the fifth Century AD to appose the theory of the earth having antipodes while keeping the supposed spherical form. This new theory suggested that the Earth was composed of two spheres, one of land and one of water, contained one within the other, but not concentric. This solved the problem of retaining the sphere while rejecting the antipodes. The terrestrial globe rose a little from the watery sphere with the northern part of the Earth centre stage.
In this exhibition the artist presents us with a body of new work that explores the dualism of belief faith and seeing. The figure looms more presently than in previous shows, occasionally appearing sharply and at times as a ghost or fading memory. In the large raw linen painting ‘Dimensions Variable (Boudoir)’ 2017 a blue hand with black manicured nails appears to measure the bottom left of the canvas. The painting jostles and sways in a freudian dream scape. Lines twist and turn on bare canvas in an effort to gain form as strips of graduated sky puncture and hold the space. The cold blue hand re-enforces the absence of a body, jarring the composition with it’s formed definition.