Still There Are Seeds To Be Gathered

Larissa Lockshin & Giorgio Van Meerwijk

2 - 25 March, 2023

Lockshin and Van Meerwijk are two artists united by their approach to materials. Their duo exhibition embraces the raw physicality in their work whilst also considering the transformation and reinterpretation of their materials.

Van Meerwijk presents sculpture that evokes actions of gathering and transforming. Further exploring the idea of the receptacle, he is interested in how the narratives that Ursual le Guin described in her essay ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ (1986), shape a way of seeing and interacting with our surroundings.

Van Meerwijk’s sculpture bounces off Lockshin’s enigmatic paintings, where abstraction of colour using charcoal and matt pigment are mapped onto satin. Her work draws on landscapes from the 19th and early 20th century and considers painting as object over image content.

Both Van Meerwijk and Lockshin allow the character of their materials to keep their original nature as well as absorb new shapes and interpretation. Their work individually engages with the viewer. Van Meerwijk’s undefined sculptural shapes require you to be in front of them to understand the image they create, or the realisation of the presence of the mosaic. Lockshin’s shimmering landscapes similarly force their viewer around multiple vantage points to understand them entirely. Painting, drawing and sculpture collide as these two artists engage with their unique materials within a container of a multitude of sacred things.