Flower in the Wind

This is an exhibition conceived from stasis. After stasis. That is, after a period of being transfixed. Fixed in a place, at a time. Held for a moment whilst life flutters on by. Still. There was magic in that moment of modernist witnessing. When We and I and the 'Eyes of the gallery' were taken in by the fragility of sheer formalist touch. By oil and pencil and canvas as graduations in tender-pink.

Titled after Agnes Martin’s 1963 painting 'Flower in the Wind', this group exhibition brings together a number of artists whose work contains some form of dissonance; that sensation conveyed so sublimely by Martin, whose "paintings are about freedom from the cares of this world, from worldliness."

Spanning sculpture and film, painting and printing processes, the artworks that compose 'Flower in the Wind' subtly embrace the dissonance afforded through abstraction – be this visual or conceptual methods of impression making – to give porousness and possibility a form. That is, to evoke something of the release that comes when one sets out to escape the solidified world, with its tightly wrought surface narratives, creating and confining and caressing a new place of material abundance into existence through material imaginings.

Featured artists: Hawazin Alotaibi; Bassam Al-Sabah; Georgina Hill; Camilla Løw; Vladimir Nikolic; Niamh O'Malley; Simon Popper; Olu Ogunnaike.