Sophie Farquhar and Roxanne Lillis come together in this group exhibition Sanctuary, to examine reduction, refinement and the quiet persistence of form. Through soft abstraction and restrained painterly gestures, the exhibition considers what is left behind when imagery is distilled to its most essential structures, when atmosphere, memory and sensation take precedence over representation.
Working from an intimate relationship to environment and place, both artists condense landscape and spatial experience into subtle arrangements of colour, texture and movement. Contours dissolve, edges blur and compositions become increasingly pared back, revealing an attentiveness to stillness and restraint. Rather than describing the external world directly, the works retain traces of it.
