Crosscurrents

We are pleased to present our inaugural group exhibition, bringing together the diverse yet interconnected practices of Heimir Björgúlfsson, Bruce Brainard, Nicholas Ward, and Peregrine O'Gormley. Each artist engages with the natural world and narratives both personal and historical. 

Peregrine O'Gormley's finely carved wooden forms translate character and detail all the way through to bronze and glass. Each intimate sculpture expresses vulnerability. Similarly of avian influence, Heimir Björgúlfsson aspired to be an ornithologist, drawing birds in Iceland growing up. Often playful yet detailed, the humorous veneer is a vehicle depicting the dynamic of how wildlife navigates a human dominated landscape.

Nicholas Ward meditates on 'Hollywoodized' Western tales. Exaggerated and larger than life figures are warped by the very narratives continually revisited and exaggerated.  Bruce Brainard's landscapes embrace the ephemeral qualities of light, capturing the expansive skies of the American West; distilling emotion and memory into luminous scenery that bridges the seen and the felt.

 

Together, the works in this exhibition reveal a shared sensitivity to process, and place-human and non-human. Distinct yet cohesive, they encapsulate the ethos of the gallery.