Tracing Space: A Group Show

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Tracing Space includes paintings by artists with a particular sensitivity to their environment, who gather and absorb the images, sounds, and stories of the places they observe and walk through again and again. Their experience of the locations they are connected to over time – across different seasons, in changing weather, and at different times of day – informs their painting, though often it will have a resonance beyond any specific site or starting point. 

The title hints at mapping a place, whether physically through walking and observing, or metaphorically, through memory, history or myth. Themes of permanence and belonging on the one hand, and transience, flux and loss, on the other, are here. Present also is the idea of investigating place as palimpsest, an archaeological uncovering of layers of meaning - tracing what was there before, what remains, what changes over time.