Our back room was turned into an art gallery in 2024. Each artist has free reign to do what they want with the space. We've hosted paintings, drawings, projections and textile works.
We support local artists primarily (although do sometimes bring in artists from elsewhere). Some artists have donated works to the shop, some have art for sale and some run workshops. And we run free launch events for each one.
Catherine: 'What you see here is part of my continuous pursuit in capturing in my art the spirits that visit me constantly.' Richard: 'My only set of conscious criteria has to do with the final version touching something in me, not a pre-formed idea or concept but something pre-verbal.'
An exhibition of discomforting original graphic works by the artist and writer team responsible for books The Bad Bad Place, Lip Hook, and The Man Who Laughs. UNEASY is a celebration of the labour intensive business of ink on paper and graphite on board. A reminder of the messy process of summoning these things into the world.
Mark Stafford will be exhibiting a selection of art seen and unseen from works in progress and work in print. David Hine will be showing, for the first time, his tortuously rendered reactions to the incoming storm of the artificially intelligent created in blood, sweat, caffeine and carbon.
UNEASY is all about the difficult and deranged and darky amusing. The uneconomic process of the overly rendered. The torture of innocent art materials. Why on earth are we doing this to ourselves? It's not easy...