Actual Use May Vary
A selection of new works by Christine Myerscough
27 August – 20 September
Actual Use May Vary brings together vintage wallpapers, domestic fittings, and discarded tools in carefully balanced compositions that question how we assign meaning—and gender—to everyday objects.
Circular panels covered in floral motifs, bold graphics, and retro patterns serve as backdrops for rusted saw blades, scrubbing brushes, floatation devices, fishing bobbers, and ceramic fixtures. These materials evoke both the soft rituals of home and the rough utility of work.
There’s a tension at play: between play and function, between masculine-coded tools and feminine-coded surfaces, between memory and material. The result is a quiet disruption of nostalgic comfort—objects remixed, identities reimagined.
and then…
Proof Pairs
James Douglas
24 September - 18 October
Proof Pairs depicts a series of spaces, partly real and partly imagined, that could best be described as liminal. Like the surreal, liminal landscapes of de Chirico, they are intimately concerned with geometry. And, like the work of de Chirico, or of Simon Stålenhag, they are empty, quiet and discomforting. They are concerned too, with mundane details like the patina of old floors, and they are about fire extinguishers, whose bright red punctuates like the red ink of signature seals on Chinese Calligraphy. Or perhaps they are about the eerie green glow of exit signs, or of pools of light emanating from unseen sources. Or maybe, like the influential work of Sesame Street’s Number Painter, they are about numbers, painted on signs and on walls and doors. Perhaps they are about the spaces between these things – a cadence and a linking in unspecified pairs… or perhaps they are not.
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