Peter Bishop’s work addresses the distinction between painting and object through a fundamental concern with process. Paint is thickly layered and allowed to dry to create swollen, cracked surfaces that conjure a compelling sense of organic form.

The balance between the artist’s intervention and the independent reactions of the medium is manipulated to create a tension between suspension and flow, leaving the work hovering between a unified totality and partial disintegration.

Lee Edwards’ paintings are fragments of recollections, at once intimate and distant. Secretive and withdrawn, they still entice through their ultra-smooth surfaces and seductive photorealism; labour-intensive yet coolly detached, they betray the artist’s ambivalence about personal expression. What appears refined and finished is in fact poignantly unresolved.

The exploration of pattern is evident in Maisie Kendall’s work, which reference diverse sources, including biological illustrations and textile designs. A variety of media are combined within a single work creating a palpable dynamism.

Their sense of fun, bordering on kitsch, conflicts with one of nostalgia and a considered seriousness: their sparkle contrasts with their ‘vintage’ feel, leaving playful, seductive forms both breathing and withering.

Kamini Vellodi's paintings explore repetition in pattern and how subtle alterations to an ostensibly fixed form can destabilise a structure, creating semantic shifts. Such shifts parallel literal shifts in translucency and visibility created by the interaction between layers of imagery and spaces both connected and distinct from one another.

She turns conventional layering into an interactive dialogue between elements, by reactivating underlying layers and playing with assumed spatial positionings.

This disruption of a familiar narrative, which lifts segments out of contexts, finds a place in Katia Yezli’s videos, which explore concepts of expectation and truth within the framework of narrative conventions.  She manipulates our inherent need to make sense of the world through imposing sequence and order.

Sound, image and text are dislocated and reconfigured, creating unexpected and disconcerting shifts, questioning assumed linear progressions and pointing to the fluid and unreliable nature of interpretation.