The space between
This exhibition “The space between” brings together the work of a group of recent graduates of the National Art School who is each in their own way drawn to the spaces we often overlook.
These might be places we walk past every day without noticing, like shopfronts or quiet corners. They might be everyday objects in a mother’s home that barely register until she’s gone and then they take on new meaning. They might be moments of quiet in busy days that are invisible until we stop to reflect. They might be the spaces between the flashy waves and cliffs that hold the rock pools and ripples and quieter things that actually are the shapes and patterns that highlight the beauty of those more dramatic features.
In painters terms these are the negative spaces in a picture plane that throw the subject forward, the tertiary colours that help the bright ones shine.
The space you don’t notice….until you do.
The space between.
FROM THE TOP_41x30cm_oil on stretched canvas
FIRST GLIMPSE_30 x23cm_oil on stretched canvas
CORNWALL CLIFFS_51x41cm_oil on stretched canvas
LULWORTH BAY_50x30cm_oil on stretched canvas
CASCADING CLIFFLINE_41x30cm_oil on stretched canvas
INTERTIDAL1_20x41cm_oil on board
INTERTIDALII_20x41cm_oil on board
FROGS DELIGHT_42x122cm_oil, ink on stretched canvas
BETWEEN NIGHT AND DAY_20x20cm_oil on stretched canvas
EDIBLE STILL LIFE_30x41cm_oil on stretched canvas