Image courtesy the gallery.

As described by Lynley Edmeades, Jude Rae’s new paintings “are paintings of objects, but they are also paintings as object, as hinted to in the title of the show. We are invited to view the objects of Rae’s gaze vis-à-vis her own meticulously curated act of objectification. To objectify, when regarding the human body, is degrading, taking away the humanity of the person, say, with the aim of making object. To objectify the object, however, is an act of inversion: Rae’s curated gaze upon the object – her own act of objectification – brings subjectivity to the fore, both hers and ours. We’re witness to her seeing and, in doing so, made aware of our own act of looking.”