Exhibiting artist Miles Hall joined Alain Guillemain for In Conversation at Jan Manton Gallery.
Exhibiting artist Arryn Snowball joined Alain Guillemain for In Conversation at Jan Manton Gallery.
Exhibiting artist Ian Friend joined Alain Guillemain for In Conversation at Jan Manton Gallery.
Exhibiting artist Carl Warner joined Alain Guillemain for In Conversation at Jan Manton Gallery.
Imagine you want to view some of the spectacular photographs that the Perseverance Mars rover took of the red planet. You consult the NASA website and, in a flash, you’re scrolling through its offerings. But that same flash describes your experience of the images. You see them on your screen and then you don’t.
“…The artist’s projected outlines, which multiply, repeat, and gently loop, can be interpreted as visualizations of her shattered sense of subjectivity. The work is both literally and pictorially an attempt by O’Dempsey to maintain an artistic identity while also filling the shifting roles of daughter, nurse, sibling, administrator.”
“To view an Angela Brennan painting is to be embraced by colour. The artist’s iconic combinations of radiating hues and soft forms are atmospheric, an effect enhanced by their often immersive scale. It is almost as if you can breathe them in. To be in their presence is to be acutely aware of your own body..”
“Blocking out the majority of his canvas, Simon Degroot paints a large, delightfully pink and deliberately off-kilter asterisk. Slowly tracing its contours reveals a playful tension between the digital perfection of its source (the little star of typography) and the human error of the artist’s hand..”
