Robbie Motion, People talking people, 2025, Oil on canvas, 75 x 60 cm

Robbie Motion’s latest exhibition delves into the murky world of images and image-making. How, amid the perpetual flood of imagery we are presented with – across multiple platforms and purposes – does one create meaning? And as a painter, how does the artist reconcile their place within the production of images?

The works in this exhibition reflect the way images often become substitutes not only for memory but also increasingly act as stand-ins for lived experience; whereby the actual event or person or experience becomes secondary to the creation and dissemination of an image. In a gesture of playful artistic introspection, several works feature figures milling around in front of what appear be paintings of Motion’s own hanging on walls, but ironically, nobody seems to be looking at the images behind them.

Opening event: Thursday 22 May, from 5pm