Annalisa Ferraris, Pool, 2022, Acrylic and oil on polyester,40 x 30cm. Courtesy: the artist and James Makin Gallery.

James Makin Gallery presents works by Annalisa Ferraris.

For her latest exhibition, Fine Form, Annalisa Ferraris pushes her hard edge minimalist background, developing and her refining her practice through an exploration of the intersecting aspects of familiarity and imagination. In Fine Form, Ferraris creates spaces that feel familiar, yet exotic, reminiscent of travel and places once visited, dreamt of returning to, and longed to experience. This body of work is less about a particular subject and more about a feeling. Where her previous work has been discussed in formal terms – her idiosyncratic hard lines and pastel colour plains – here formal construction takes a backseat and instead acts as a conduit for something entirely cerebral and emotive. While Fine Form features Ferraris signature empty swimming pools and architectural divisions of the painted surface, the artist no longer references literal spaces. Instead, leaving it up to the viewer to construct a sense of place and memory

Fine Form is an exhibition about nostalgia, minimalism and the desire in all of us to explore the unfamiliar – be that cerebrally, physically or both.