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Preview 23rd June
6-9pm The Lost Night Anxiety and Modern Malaise "But truly,
I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon
is atrocious and every sun bitter."
The Lost Night brings together nine artists whose work deals with the themes of melancholy, anxiety, deviance and romanticism.Collectively, the work describes a metaphorical lost night, which could be read as a kind of contemporary malaise or bewilderment. We are presented with an unfolding melodrama through tales of longing, loss and transgression. Paul
Corcoran creates desirable and flawless objects that
fetishise our obsession with bespoke design. He deftly subverts
the functionalism of objects, transforming the everyday, imbibing
it with a still mysticism. Tim Parr is interested
in how intense observation and microscopic detail can reveal new
worlds, how everyday objects or scenes can become unreal and astonishing
when viewed closely. He is interested in a shift in scale and
perspective, presenting us with a dislocated view of man's place
or measure of the world. Fiona Lumbers paintings
have a sense of ghostly dreamlike dislocation. The scenes depict
isolated woodland clearings, lakes and forest glades, occasionally
inhabited by melancholic adolescents. The locations seem solitary
and not quite of waking life. Matthew Draper
meanwhile creates an uneasy world. The characters that inhabit
his paintings appear uncomfortable in their own skins, yet have
a narcotic sense of calm, staring out from world-weary eyes. Gavin
Nolan’s portraits are by turns sadistic or grotesque
and painfully visceral. They instill in the viewer a palpable
and very real sense of anxiety. JA Nicholls has
developed a language that describes a fractured and melancholic
view of the world. The figures that populate her paintings stare
out at us sometimes anxiously, sometimes indifferently, but always
with a self-possessed sense of purpose. In Greg Rook’s
work we are witness to a collision of styles. Both romantic and
melodramatic, Rook’s paintings display an undercurrent of
dark flippancy. Christopher Davies makes fantastical
sculptures that defy gravity and twist perception. He plunders
the everyday world and returns to our vision, sharp bright fragments.
Will Turner’s collages are methodically
constructed, layer upon layer. He offers us banal yet heightened
imagery that is paradoxically both seductive and repellent.
Preview 23rd June
6-9pm.
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Greg Rook
JA Nicholls
Gavin Nolan
Fiona Lumbers
Matthew Draper 
Will Turner 1
Will Turner 2