NOCTURNE 2024
Curated by Ali Darke and Lito Apostolakou at hARTslane Gallery, with work by Ali Darke, Lito Apostolakou, Lee Maelzer and Richard Sharples. An exhibition of painting, sculpture, drawing and moving image inspired by the elusive shifts of the mind and body through the fall of darkness.
My work continued conversations between the surface and depth, skin and bone, absence and presence, drawing and sculpture, begun in Caylus, a small medieval village, next to the River Bonnet and Cascade Petrifiante. Time in this environment, the water, the rocks, the quiet, the crumbling village and a visit to the local cave, Grotte du Bosc, resonate in ones thoughts, bones and dreams.
‘We are cast upon the shores of our bedlinen from out of the infinite ocean of the night, left like debris as the dream recedes from us’. Peter Schwenger: At the Borders of Sleep.
RESTING PLACES
river rocks, bedlinen, ink, taxidermy display case.
THREE MOONS, Scorched, Grisaille and Veiled
polystyrene spheres, bed linen, kapok, salt, nylon net, metal stand, marble slab
HADAL MOONS
polystyrene spheres, bed linen, ink, taxidermy display case
ABYSSAL
river rocks, bed linen, salt, concrete slab
NIGHT WALKER
polystyrene sphere, bedlinen, salt, acrylic paint, ink, metal stand
