Visible Silence

5 November - 13 December
Artist talks: 2pm Saturday 5 December

These three distinct solo exhibitions by Lucia Dohrmann, Sam Howie and Deborah Sleeman are linked by common sensibilities of restraint, universal meaning and the passing of time. 

Lucia Dohrmann’s abstract paintings consist of delicately stained canvases which have been partially deconstructed to create shimmering curtains of threads that still carry the memory of the original painted image. 

Sam Howie feels that the universality of the hand-drawn straight line references the visual language of the original scratched marks on rock surfaces in ancient caves as well as the mark-making language used by many artists today.

Deborah Sleeman describes her take on Visible Silence as “the narrative of deep time…the time taken for a mountain range to become a gibber plain…the processes of change embodied in rocks, in fossils, in the signifiers of our landscape that surround us and give us our touchstones for life and culture.” 

Opening times: 11am-5pm Thursday to Saturday & 1-5pm Sunday

Stair access only