What happens when that eye leans ever closer into the screen and begins to watch and learn from the digital? All bets are off. What we see can have been reconfigured and reimagined in any number of ways. There is no need for truth, logic or limits.
A show that spans forty years shouldn’t feel contemporary in every direction at once, yet What Remains of the Day does exactly that. In pairing Marilyn Hallam and Ellie MacGarry, the exhibition opens up a conversation about how painters organise attention, how interiors become states of mind, and why the language of modernism keeps resurfacing when we think we’ve left it behind. This is a quiet show, but it has a long reach.
This month at Blackbird Rook – Hallam & MacGarry in dialogue, Woolwich Print Fair, and a new essay on collecting with intent.
Jeff Dellow: Extended Fields marks not only a tribute to a lifetime of sustained enquiry, but also a beginning - a renewed recognition of a painter whose subtle mastery continues to shape the conversation around abstraction in Britain and beyond.
