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Curatorial Review of Jemima Charrett-Dykes in Solitude
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…
Curatorial Review of Paul Tranter in Solitude
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.…
Curatorial Review of Caroline Marg Elliot in Solitude
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…
Curatorial Review of Jeff Hunter in Solitude
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…
Curatorial Review of Philip Watkins in Solitude
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,…
Curatorial Review of Glenn Thomas in Solitude
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”…
Curatorial Review of Jenny Kallin in Solitude
Alone and Outgrown (2024) takes the viewer and captures and frames them within the work itself. The artwork is surrealistic and set within a domestic scene, which pits the viewer to the face of an older woman who has taken over the top half of the room. We are invited to become a part of…
Curatorial Review of Yewbowart in Solitude
The Deep Loneliness of Society (2023) explores loneliness reflects on how society has become both connected in the digital age yet also isolated. The figures are faceless and are wearing different coloured clothes implying a different identity for each one all together yet they are in a crowd but still lonely. The facelessness allows the…
Curatorial Review of Delia Zorzoliu in Solitude
Contemplation (2023) is a bold and expressive mixed-media work with chaotically layered textures. A figure seems to emerge from this layering just below the contrasting red—the figure looks as though it is reflecting on itself. This meditation is happening around what looks to be flora and birds, thus nature, which implies human relations to the…
Curatorial Review of James Verity in Solitude
Figure#5 (2024) portrays a sculpture of a figure that looks to be tormented and fragmented as though it is in anguish and screaming out as its head is ripped out and has exploded right out of the sculpture. There are claw marks etched within the surface of the material used for the sculpture, which could…