Curated Art 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.