There are a clutch of exhibitions that quietly emerge every few years in new and surprising versions. Farben is certainly one of these. This is the fourth iteration of Farben we have made over two decades.

Obviously, colour is the shared creed amongst these works even if each artist operates from differing belief systems. With each artist embracing, utilising and celebrating colour differently, each delivers highly divergent impacts. From the elegant, prismatic vibrato of Mark Francis to the wild, pink assault of Jan Albers, to the quieter material symbolism of Jane Bustin... each of these artists acknowledge colours capacity to inflame, to calm, to beguile but they also understand its role in constructing the fundamental architecture of sight.

Joining Albers, Culbert and Nikolic's colours are positively incandescent - Hunter's and Vary's swirling expressionist gestures are fuelled by colour, whereas Gerold Miller's exquisitely honed reliefs unburden colour from any demonstrative obligation. On first sighting, Shila Khatami eschews colour, but of course she gives us the polarities between which the full spectrum exists.
AJ