Sumer, Tauranga
2 October – 6 November, 2021
Appearing ethereal and cloud-like, the drawings, with their layered gestural marks, oscillate and swirl. Whilst abstract they suggest space and form. Not landscapes, least not in the traditional sense—there is no horizon and the depth of field is shallow. Yet, with no hard edges or boundaries—other than the paper upon which the marks reside—they do not register as interiors either. The spaces intimated are instead something more akin to a garden, or a bower; an external expanding space, but one that is at the same time cloistered, intimate and in reach. — Sumer