
A return to archetypal forms is vital to the work of James Collins, Whitney McVeigh and Gerry Judah. Collins’ ‘Lithic Root’ slowly carves familiar abstract shapes; like a stream of water impressing itself onto the earth or spreading through an ancient floodplain, the painting deposits a rich sediment of references as we journey through its painterly landscape. In Gerry Judah's painting 'Ark/Angel', a scarred sculptural form - evoking the architectural remnants of an archaic monument or shrine - rises from the canvas's ashy ground. Judah ritually utilizes this compositional motif and in doing so, asks us to consider how form can function as a vessel of memory. Working intimately with ink on paper, Whitney McVeigh is guided by the medium’s fluidity to explore the ‘archaeology of memory’. In ‘Ecology I’ the artist sensitively conjures psychic forms and embodied landscapes, continually exploring the possibilities of history as a channel for our personal and collective memory. |