The Voice From the Well

Date: January 2025
Exhibition/Show Type: Group
Media: Painting, Sculpture

Exhibition Description

An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Ed Halsey and Simon Newby exploring their shared interest in abstraction, pattern and repetition.

Ed Halsey creates small scale two dimensional works that play with a floating sense of time. With a strong emphasis on colour and line these often photograph or postcard sized paintings focus on the familiar.

Delicate stories are rendered with equally delicate marks and brush strokes, making it hard for the viewer’s eye to settle on one focal point within the picture plane. Interiors, landscapes, window views repeat and merge, often sliding into abstraction as the everyday is probed away at, towards a re-imagined world.

Simon Newby manipulates modular objects and materials to create works that play with pattern and movement within two and three-dimensional spaces. Diverse materials are altered or concealed, triggering new ambiguous surfaces and forms.

Underpinned by a haphazard linearity, his sculptures have been imagined as drawings in space. In these fleeting sketches, once functional objects and materials slip between the rational and ridiculous, in various states of completion. They begin to offer up a visually enticing logic of their own, which is awkward, unsettling and usually quite funny.