Author: msp.adm@joshuaobaranorwood
Curatorial Review of Elena Gorn in Contrast
The Listener (2025) brings us directly towards a silhouette of a face which has been cleanly carved from the left side of the composition. The silhouette does not have any individuality as it has been stripped of any emotion, expression or appearance and does not speak. It listens which turns the silence of the silhouette…
An Interview with Leanne Violet in Contrast
Leanne Violet was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. You described your work as an ‘archive of memory and survival’. How do you see your pieces serving as both personal testimony and collective history? Although my practice spans a range…
Curatorial Review of Leanne Violet in Contrast
Love in Idleness (2025) reclaims textiles and is a reclamation of domestic textile work. Violet has challenged the romanticised notion of ‘women’s work’ by confronting it, the symbolism in the work and the defiance of it. From the first look at the work- we are drawn towards the eye in the centre which has replaced…
An Interview with Maximilian Vermilye in Contrast
Maximilian Vermilye was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. You describe your process as psychodynamic photography, what inspired you to connect photography with psychology and the unconscious? For me, all art at some level connects with what is in our…
An Interview with Gary Dempsey in Contrast
Gary Dempsey was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. Can you share a specific cultural tradition or story that has had a lasting impact on your practice? One tradition that’s deeply influenced my work is the Irish practice of seanchaí—the…
An Interview with Mia Upton in Contrast
Mia Upton was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. The works you’ve presented in this publication are still and contemplative moments—can you share the stories behind the original images that inspired these woven scenes? The images came from a mix…
An Interview with Lewis Andrews in Contrast
Lewis Andrews was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. Your work explores cosmic phenomena on both molecular and cosmic scales- what drew you to these and how do you think it reflects on humanity’s existence and perhaps our experience?…
Draft copy of Contrast Issue 4.
Please send your addresses to me by the end of the 5th if you haven’t already or pay for delivery fees if you are outside of Europe and the UK and your fee level does not pay for free delivery: https://metaspacegallery.co.uk/2025/02/03/fee-levels-and-multiple-copies-2025/ For those ordering extra copies please pay by 16:00 on the 5th of May…
Curatorial Review of Maximilian Vermilye in Contrast
Lost in Transmission (2023) has successfully manipulated a winter landscape into a field which is psychologically charged and espousing a perception of friction. It has been fractured through repetition- its orientation flipped and through chromatic aberration. You simply cannot view this image passively and must become active to understand and explore the work. The symmetry…
Curatorial Review of Gary Dempsey in Contrast
Zente at St. Tola’s Cross (2025) shows a child standing before the Cross. The child is aligned centrally beneath the carved figures on the cross, which establishes a clear line between the past and the present. However, where the cross has been chiselled in stone, the child wears a padded coat and a beanie, which…