Artists

Audrey Reynolds

Press release

Audrey Reynolds's paintings unfold in a register of suspension: figures pause, turn away, or hold themselves in states of quiet concentration, as if caught between intention and aftermath. The women that populate these works appear alone or in pairs, their gestures minimal but charged; a tilt of the head here, a clasped hand there, perhaps a slight lean toward or away from something unseen or unspoken. The spaces these figures inhabit are at once interior and indeterminate. Softly modulated fields of colour are punctuated by fleeting forms: a red point, a suggestion of furniture, a wavering contour that hovers between object and atmosphere. These environments behave less as settings than as extensions of the figures themselves, registering shifts in attention, mood and thought. In the works where figures turn their backs, attention becomes the central subject. These women appear absorbed, looking into something that may be present only to them. Across the exhibition, Reynolds constructs a world in which interior life takes on a fragile, visible form. The paintings operate through accumulation and drift, allowing mood, memory and invention to overlap.