Exhibition

Opening times: Friday 23rd January 6-8pm +  Saturday 24th, Thursday 29th, Friday 30th & Saturday 31st January 10am-4pm

SVA gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Nicola Organ and Jack Duplock. Both artists were brought together through SVA’s mentorship program. Through studio visits Nicola and Jack discovered that they drew from similar reference points.

The title of the exhibition, “Green Dawn”, is taken from the sci-fi novel, “Roadside Picnic” by. Akady; Boris Strugatsky. The novel is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event - the visitation. Green Dawn refers to the zone, one of six areas altered by these visitations. The zone is a strange and dangerous place. The terrain is harsh with abandoned buildings, scorched earth and swamps filled with deadly liquid. Landmarks appear and disappear – memory dissolves and time shifts.

In both artists’ work, landscape is explored as intangible spaces straddling the concrete and dreamworlds of our imagination.

In Jack’s paintings, landscape appears fragmentary. A composite of different places rather than a study of one. They appear dreamlike, familiar but slightly off-centre. The play between illusion and the flatness of the picture plane, and use of saturated colour emphasizes the lucidity of memory. Interior and exterior merge into each other dissolving into abstraction.

Nicola paints imagined landscapes inspired by the mysteries and grandeur of the natural world, as well as the fragile balance between its vulnerability and power. Her work is grounded in the belief that Earth contains its own form of science fiction—an ever-unfolding constellation of anomalies and phenomena that feel both ancient and futuristic, unsettling and sublime.

www.nicolaorgan.com / @nicola0rg

www.jackduplock.co.uk / @jackduplock