DON RANKIN
18 Still Lifes and 3 Landscapes
Forget about the persistence of memory - Don Rankin believes in the persistence of painting as a vehicle for encouraging the viewer to see everyday things anew. His representations of fruit and flowers in a non-traditional way, verging on the abstract, are uplifting to the human spirit.
GEOFF MITCHELL
Istoriato
Geoff Mitchell's work is a meditation on beauty, history, myth and the unconscious in which he creates fragmentary narratives in dream-like landscapes. These works are his Istoriato, drawing on the traditions and iconography of both the 16th century Italian maiolica and from a thousand years of decorated porcelain. His is not work with a self-conscious and explicit message, rather it is a reflection on the past, playfully woven through with contemporary references and with layered allegory and metaphor.
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© Filmed & edited by Daniela Pinna