Highlights

Angst-ious Moment, 2016 by Paul Critchley

Angst-ious Moment, a triptych oil painting, is just one of 9 shown at NordArt.de from 6 June - 5th October 2025. NordArt, now in its 26th edition, is one of the largest art events in Europe. I was awarded the public prize in 2024 for my Installation ‘A Sense Of Place’.

The 9 paintings on show are a combination of interiors, landscapes and seascapes, all in perspective and shaped formats.

Digital catalogues available : English / Deutsch

We Are Only Partly Real (Zones 1,2 & 3, Night Cycle), 2024 - 2025 by Michelle Marie Forrest and Steve Dutton

We Are Only Partly Real is a Virtual Reality (VR) exhibition that was made in 2024 and launched in 2025 by Michelle Marie Forrest and Steve Dutton and produced in collaboration with digital artist and researcher Stephen Gray from the University of Bristol. The commission seeks to explore the potential of Virtual Reality not only as a platform to exhibit art, but also as an artistic medium in itself.

Inspired by shared interests in the complexities of communication, Dutton and Forrest work with grids, data, text and colour, often embedding multiple references as cyphers within their work, to play with viewer’s feelings and memories. The exhibition draws upon various filmic references – including Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar – using fantasy and surrealism as a means to investigate language and other forms of communication.

Split into four interconnected zones, the virtual exhibition brings together real-world painting, drawing, sculpture and moving image; digital adaptations of real-world artworks; and new Virtual Reality artworks made specifically for this context. The result is a hybrid exhibition that uses Virtual Reality as a mechanism to explore artistic practice.

The notion of time is central to the commission, which features both a ‘daytime’ and ‘night-time’ version of the exhibition. Upon certain triggers, day turns into night, and viewers enter a dream-like state, where reality fades and imagination takes hold. This dual exhibition invites viewers to question their perception of reality, while acknowledging the potentials and pitfalls of Virtual Reality as a creative platform for both making and exhibiting art.

The virtual commission is a pilot project by Spike Island and researcher Stephen Gray, aiming to create new and accessible virtual art spaces. The project was funded by the University of Bristol’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Award, and curated by Spike Island’s Assistant Curator: Artist Development and Engagement, Saphia Abrahamovitch-Venner.

postnatureglitch II, 2022 by Victoria Lucas

Digital Print

Limited Edition 1/5

Postnatureglitch II digitally disrupts a lithograph by JS Templeton, unravelling the picturesque as a trope and creating a post-natural fissure using technology.

The work seeks to agitate romanticised notions of the British landscape in the context of an environmental crisis.

29.7 x 42 cm

Alborough, 2025 by John Vincent 

A new series of works exploring the flip side of no place.