I recently had the great pleasure of writing this piece for Home@735 Gallery about their latest show featuring Rosie Deacon, Tania Rolland, Sue Beyer, Zoe Kirkwood and Kirsten T. Smith. The exhibition runs til 11 September and is definitely one to check out!

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Paint, texture and the traceable hand of the artist threads throughout 17.08.16. Home@735’s current exhibition presents an all-female line-up of artists whose work, when placed together, forms a fascination with colour, mark-making and the physical properties of their materials.

Zoe Kirkwood’s acrylic and mdf “drip” sculptures crystallise this perspective.  Dotted throughout the terrace space, Kirkwood’s works take the physicality of paint itself as their subject. Kirkwood gives us the very “stuff” of art to contemplate. Each work forms a portrait of a single mark or splash of paint, magnified and gargantuan, slick and high gloss, as if still wet and forming their ultimate shape. Many of the works are suspended on knotted brightly coloured climbing ropes with metal fixtures, bringing them out from the wall to pun at pigment suspensions and layerings of paint, and ultimately casting the white walls of the terrace as a vast and intricate canvas.