Flow
Private View: Thursday 8th October, 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition Open: Thursday 8th - Monday 12th October
Opening hours: Daily, 10am–5pm
Location: Gallery 2, ASC Gallery
Special Event
Artist’s talk with critic and poet, Dr Cherry Smyth: Monday 12th October, 4pm -5pm (with refreshments)
This show brings together three artists whose work exists in a place where time and timelessness merge in a frozen moment of flow.
Dripping, drizzling, drooling, oozing, pooling, spooling, streaming, these liquid forms, created by the interaction of paint, solvents, water or glazes, are dispersed across solid surfaces and conjure up a universe of rhizomes, rain drops, microbes or coral outcrops.
Underlying everything is an exploration of the elemental force of nature and our position in relation to its sublime vastness. This is a space of paradox where we are both significant and insignificant, maker and minion, observer and observed, macro and micro.
As an artist in the act of making, or a viewer in the act of looking, we lose ourselves in a meditative state of flow - a river of forgetfulness in which time is both suspended and endlessly moving forwards. And with that forgetfulness comes release and the possibility of profound peace.
The Artists
Anna Levy
Anna Levy’s drawings and paintings unfold through the quiet repetition of marks or lines. The work metaphorically explores fleeting experiences; attempts to catch a sensation, ephemeral forms which exist only in transition, like waves, clouds, light, or the silent presence of breath. They emerge and dissolve. She seeks to make images that hold their rhythm, preserving within them layered interpretations of time, space and transience.
In contrast to the speed of modern life, her drawings and paintings unfold slowly, holding time and process as essential elements while opening the space to moments of stillness and silence.
Check out her website and Instagram
JJ Morgan
JJ Morgan’s handmade, visceral work ranges across ceramics, reclaimed wood, plaster, Perspex and aluminium dibond. Process is never far away: surfaces are scratched, scraped, folded, cut and layered; paint and glaze drip, seep and pool; clay is pressed, looped and accumulated into organic forms.
Her current ceramic work uses repetition, folding and corrugation to create structures that hover between the familiar and the strange, part manufactured object, part body, landscape or microscopic organism. Sometimes playful and sometimes abject, the work explores the unruly physicality of our bodies and the natural world, where order gives way to disorder and control to surrender.
Check out her website and instagram
Suzi Morris
Suzi Morris’s paintings surface from the subconscious, where the body, understood, after Braidotti, as an assemblage rather than a fixed vessel, becomes raw material for a roaming, intuitive imagination. Earlier layers of coloured glaze ghost through the surface like memory, setting the terms for what follows.
Working within a posthuman era in which bodies are becoming increasingly entangled with technology, Morris draws on genome editing and artificial intelligence as further points of departure. Cellular blooms, veiled figures dissolving into atmosphere, and forms hovering between organism and code. Colour transmutes scientific inquiry into revelation, opening onto timeless, submerged spaces where the human assembles and reassembles, micro and macro blur.
Check out her website and Instagram