RC0003 Al Braitwaite: Left Blood on the Door

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Literally taking its name from the result of an accident the artist had on his first visit to Ruby Cruel, Al Braithwaite's show, Left Blood on the Door, presents a selection of small scale pieces from his Works in Stone series. The sculptures have a tactile quality about them whose selection may unconsciously relate to the hand the artist damaged here. The aggressive materials employed make them somewhat unnerving and uncomfortable, perhaps a nod to that moment of pain he suffered. Displayed in the window, the works are intended to be hurried past but should stick in the amygdala (the centre of emotion and memory in the brain) of passers-by long after Covid-19 is no longer their primary preoccupation.