Curated Collections

Artist Günther Förg described painting as a ‘resilient practice’ — always in the now, and expanding rather than ever truly changing. There’s something both comforting and exciting about this. Exciting, because there really are endless possibilities, and comforting because it’s deeply rooting knowing that a contemporary painting can embody all that comes before it in the most subtle of ways. 

This selection of work emphasises texture — the real fun of it. The warp and weft of textile experiments, the hyperreality of fluff, the charisma of hand embroidery… all are among the personal touches that bring to life wonderment at our own sensory capabilities.

It’s a natural human trait to find stories in the world around us. From justifying our experiences with “everything happens for a reason” to pointing out shapes in cloud formations, creating a narrative is both instinctual and imaginative.

Water is a vital nutrient to life on earth: it’s our first building material, making up around 60 percent of the human body. It’s also often no less vital to the act of artistic creation, for example, we could think of the human body as analogous to a body of work, with water as the essential life-force.

Echo and seam in the empathy of forms and colours chiming. The entities – or composites, or individuals – that make up each work transit in a rhythmic scattering, an errant flow.

Tactile, gentle, these artworks are about belonging.

Abstract art just doesn’t get old: freed from the constraints of representation, see colour, form and composition in all their unbound glory.

In these works of people, you’ll find introspection, psychedelia, monumental figures, vulnerable ones, groups at table and couples in a world of their own. 

You can tell a history of art through a material history of colour.

At a certain mid-scale, say between 60cm – 90cm, the work usually doesn’t dominate, but is still a notable presence. Instead of taking centre-stage in your visual field it integrates into your space, becoming more intrinsically a part of the environment.