Highlights

Summer of Frankenstein series, 2025 by Paul Newman

New mixed media works on paper from an ongoing series depicting Frankenstein's monster and his journey reimagined, including cinematic, Romantic era landscape painting influences and other art histories. They depict shifting ‘interior’ landscapes, alluding to restless searching and resting places for the character. These landscapes depict the essence of this subject in tone and greens.

This character has been  portrayed  previously within a series of paintings and drawings called ‘English Gothic’, and live durational performances.

House of Frankenstein, mixed media on paper, 30x42 cm, 2025

Moratoriums, 2015 - 2016 by Michelle Marie Forrest

In the text The Psychology and Value of Emotional Containment, Dr Andy Drymalski refers to Jung's perspective on protecting the wellbeing of feelings, as a moratorium, in which, the physical containment of overflowing emotions can be looked at and reflected upon, from a distance, with a more objective perspective.

The Cambridge Dictionary defines a Moratorium as follows;

Moratorium (formal)

a stopping of an activity for an agreed amount of time: a five-year worldwide moratorium on nuclear weapons testing.

Moratorium (finance)

an agreed period of time during which a country does not have to pay its debt to other countries: An immediate debt moratorium would free resources for poor countries to spend on health and education programmes.

The premise for making a moratorium was to:

demarcate a visual boundary and a safe enclosure in which to act out and harness fears, dreams, and desires, where conflicts and impulses could coalesce.
to hold something in a state of poise, which could be subject to change, as opposed to holding on to something too tightly.
a dynamic approach to thinking with an expansive viewing position to be encircled and viewed from all directions, to think through multiple perspectives.
to leave perspectives unsubstantiated and left in the balance for consideration.
Moratorium I: underweight, 2015 is filled with weights, cord and pulleys that operate sash windows, and velvet curtains and curtain tie backs re-figured into a peacock form, weighted down by its own ornamentation, as a play on the term ‘window dressing’.

'Window dressing' is a term used by retailers as a way of dressing up a window display to draw in customers. The financial industry adopted this term to refer to the practice of altering financial data to appear more attractive to investors.

Moratorium II: under weigh, 2016 was originally filled with cut glass objects that were suspended within the unit made-up of glass window frames. Redirecting the focus onto the glass unit which is constructed from inverted windowpanes (a reworking that turns the usual act of ‘looking out’ around), I emptied the moratorium and precariously counterbalanced the empty unit as a declaration of a potential breaking point, this was a marker of letting go of all the stuff that can weigh a person down, to consider one's impact upon the wider environment.

Shafter Ghost Town, 2025 by James William Murray

graphite and dirt on canvas

160 x 120cm

So Long And Thanks For All the Fish, 2025 by Stuart Robinson

A wing panel from a Volvo 340 sits, skewered by an improbable ceramic chip fork.  

2025 - Steel, Wire, Car body parts, Ceramic

118 x 45 x 62cm