Imogen Taylor, Alone Time, 2023. Acrylic on hessian, 80 x 100cm. Courtesy: the artist and Michael Lett, Auckland.

Murmurs is a solo presentation of new works by Tāmaki Makaurau based artist Imogen Taylor. Teasing out the push and pull of abstraction and figuration, Taylor conjures enduring forms as part of a sensual approach to painting. With brightening hues she investigates intimate relationships with bodies, both human and non-human, as well as communication and what might exceed it.

Taylor (b. 1985) is known for creating geometrical abstractions that engage and play with the forms and legacies of modernisms. Though she draws from the abstracted forms and coloured juxtapositions of historic painting movements, her paintings are stripped of the masculine self-seriousness that saturates the source material. Instead, in their vibrant interplay of thickly applied colour and contrasts between imposing parallel lines and soft curves, the work is joyful, sincere, and pleasurable.

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