between noise and silence

Solo show of paintings undertaken between may 2019 and 2020 to be shown in Averys wine vaults, Bristol. These new paintings explore the disparity between what was and what is remembered while exploring the potential for personal reinvention enabled by the silent detachment that comes from displacement. After the silence develops, what remains are memories, a handful of photographs, music too painful to hear and a future unfettered by a past. Displaced, detachment and the opportunity of reinvention become real; a canvas to paint over. Old marks support an invented narrative, modified through reiteration, calcified by use. Remembering is unwanted, with no focus but modified memory and a stillness that merely shouts of the possibility of better things. The silence is too loud so you repeat.