The gallery will be transformed as Wendy Sharpe’s figurative and narrative style paintings depict the transience between what is real and imagined as viewers navigate the space between the parallel.
This immersive exhibition explores time and memory. Paintings flow into each other and directly onto the walls of the gallery itself.
The exhibition combines images from past, present and possible futures, some real, some imagined, with endless alternatives and interpretations.
Image: Wendy Sharpe. A Dance to the Music of Time 2022. oil on linen. 152x122cm. Picture John Fotiadis.
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This painting is about time and its inevitability. It features a version of A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin. This is partly due to my age, and partly the strange pandemic world we are currently in. I include symbols of ephemerality and impermanence – bubbles, flowers, smoke from a snuffed candle, and references to time – a watch, hourglass, sun and moon. There is a connection with the Japanese phrase mono no aware, often translated as 'the sadness of time passing', an awareness of the transience of things. Nothing is forever.
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