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Meriel Jane Thomas & Geoff Brown

People and Unpeopled Places
4 – 24 November 2006

Meriel Jane Thomas uses oil on canvas to render pictorially a series of images based on a film she made. The film recorded four people, arbitrarily selected by the artist, spending an hour in a set she put together. As such they neither told a story nor had any real contact with each other. The subsequent work alludes to the source material but whatever may be made of these images – any inferred narrative, symbolism or meaning – will come from the viewer.

Geoff Brown has always been interested in the tension between representational images and the concept of the painted surface as a thing in itself. He sometimes combines these two elements in single works. More recently he has produced work either exclusively representational or exclusively abstract.