Category: Artist Review

Day Dreaming (2025) is a mix of digital, photography, and drawing- in that it is a journey of the man and his dog towards a daydream while in solitude on a walk. A golden path emerges before the man and the dog, bringing them towards this light of their imaginations, leaving the physicality of this…

Cold Hands (2024) is a pair of two photographs (seen above and below each other in the publication) that are thematically about abandonment, neglect, and desolation in a place that may have a spiritual presence to them. The atmosphere in this haunted house creates a feeling of uneasiness, intensifying the feeling of a presence within…

In I Seek The Image of Myself (2022), the work seems to chaotically spurl over isolation, ageing and what is left from loss. The abstract work bursts out like an explosion onto the composition and seems volatile, exploring the personal trauma that Durmush has been through and rising above it. The work itself does not…

Red Sky At Morning (2025) captures the extreme colour of the early morning sky as the sun rises. The scene is quite personal as it is set from Carney’s viewpoint and car- which puts the viewer in the same spot where she had witnessed this sky. It is quite an impressive moment as the reds…

The triptych series Body As Home (2023) presents the fragile relationship between body, trauma, and the self. Using silver gelatin photography, the work is black-and-white monochrome, which allows us to examine the light and shadow within the work, which are integral in the creation of a home within yourself as the light focuses on the…

Walking Home (2024) is framed with a white background and introduces the viewer with red text: “Nine miles, 1,335 feet of ascent, 3 hours 7 minutes, Highest point 1,259 feet.” Between the title and these units lies a documentative image of the landscape—it is atmospheric and brings us to the horizon with the gravel path.…

Oak Tree on Caton’s Lane (2025) depicts an oak tree standing in solitude against the rugged winter landscape in which the oak tree still stands despite the harsh environment. This brings the viewer feelings of endurance, survival and, of course, solitude. The oak tree creates a silhouette form, which gives the work contrast and draws…

The Hermit (2025) replaces the human figure from the painting The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818) with a microscope. Microscopes are used to observe and analyse, which helps transform the work from the solitude of existentialism to a form of technological estrangement. This, therefore, creates a reflection of solitude and vulnerability within the…

Waiting Room, Cancer Clinic (2022) reveals the sterility of the clinical setting of the waiting room. The scene is clean, and the colour is low saturation yet lit by a pale fluorescent light. Concentrating on the light- the shadow and light have captured the institutional environment of a hospital well; the scene’s elements are well-polished,…

Night Cracks (2024) opens with the words, “Listening to the rain play an impressive percussion piece on the attic window while I tremble in bed, the thoughts piling up in my head.”. These words help to bring the viewer into what seems to be a recollection of memories as suggested by the text: “dreadful memory”…