▶ MARC STANDING + SENDEN BLACKWOOD, OPENING 25 OCTOBER

New work by MARC STANDING and SENDEN BLACKWOOD will be on view starting Tuesday 25 October. Please join the Gallery for a drink to celebrate the launch of their solo exhibitions on Saturday 29 October from 4-6pm.

There is an ethereal and dreamlike quality to Marc Standing's new body of work, with it's many references to human nature and our perception of the natural world. Plants, masks, animals and cell like structures hover and drift within these dreamscapes, whilst the birds straddle between the sacred and the earthly realms and hint about what may come.

Left: Marc Standing, 'Forever Sweet' 2011, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm
Right: Senden Blackwood, 'min' 2011, carved basalt, 33 x 22 x 26cm

Senden Blackwood strives to carve simple forms from stone; engaging lines with dynamic planes. He maintains that his inspiration comes from "the natural world; a broken seashell, leaves in all their complexities, or simply the cracks and lines of force in pavements."