STRESS LINES: London

The exhibition considers pressure across multiple registers. Geological forces appear through dense, stratified surfaces that recall erosion, sedimentation, and time. Elsewhere, material tension is made explicit as metal is bent, looped, or polished into states of visible stress. In painting, gesture functions less as emotional mark-making and more as residue: scraped, repeated, or built-up actions that record duration rather than moment.

Artist practice unfolds in two stages: action and analysis. Beginning with pure improvisation, he paints instinctively, laying down gestural marks, colour fields, and spontaneous forms. This oscillation between impulse and contemplation enables him to access his inner states with greater clarity, resulting in works that feel both immediate and deeply introspective.

Leech’s painterly exploration of masculinity, innocence, and emotional visibility examines how identity is formed, concealed, and remembered, using the body as both subject and metaphor. Working primarily in oil, she layers paint with instinctive mark-making that evokes both intimacy and distance. 

Reid works with an intricate craftsmanship through fine brushwork. His allure to the narrative quality of realism is encapsulated by his choice in subject matter which largely references his local environment.

A seminal West Coast artist whose works balance chaos and structure. Through grids, stains, and layered gestures, he investigates transparency, surface, and the instability of form.

RETNA’s signature script synthesizes calligraphic systems from diverse cultures. His work transforms language into rhythmic, abstract structures that bridge identity, spirituality, and urban expression.