Free Form

Simon Esling, Kerry Ann Lee and Tim Thatcher will have works on display at Bartley and Company Art Gallery. All three artists foray into the fantastical to suggest ideas about the psychology of architectural space and its impact on human experience. Here imagination triumphs over function to create spaces for contemplation rather than machines for living.

Simon Esling’s drawings present the body as integral to the making of architectural building. The grafting of bones with houses suggests an uneasy tension between nature and the manmade world. Kerry Ann Lee generates a pop sensibility in her digital montage prints which explore place-based identity through fantastic and re-imagined urban forms. Tim Thatcher’s gouache paintings capture some of the haunted ambience of the cityscapes of the surrealist painter De Chirico. They explore the architecture of the artistic mind, in which forms and narratives come into being through a process of imagination, self doubt and self criticality.