The most striking aspect of Louise Forthun’s work in this exhibition is its intense relationship with texture. This texture is found in her free-standing crumpled bronzes and paper pieces, in her urgent, dragged and spattered oils from the early 2000s, and in her current explorations using synthetic polymer. These latter works, on paper and canvas, are from 2025, and their pointy, furrowed, and slabby surfaces combine two radically opposite perspectives; the tectonic view frame gained by vast distance and the rugged detail of very close; a satellite looking down on a planet, combined with the clarity of a surface under a microscope. Colour comes second but it’s the other actor in the drama, a call and response to the surface. There are works in single colours, heavy blues and blacks, and clotting reds that are carried through in works more than 20 years apart.

Opening celebration Tuesday 21 October, 5-7pm

Image: Louise Forthun, Flamenco, 2024, patinated bronze, 20 x 15.5 x 8 cm