Rita Duffy
& Tim Millen

This body of work explores ecology, mythology and place. The show builds thematically on works exhibited earlier this year in ‘New Exits’ at The MAC, Belfast. Millen’s recent work introduces a cast of creaturely forms navigating their own struggle to make sense of the world they inhabit, of the space of their own bodies, and their desire for a more certain future. This is an earthy world where the boundaries between human, animal and fauna begin to dissolve and reassemble. Forming new symbioses or rivalries in response to escalating changes to the natural order. The works celebrate the pleasure and physical matter of painting. They explore how specific characteristics or ideas can be embedded in the material. Can the paint itself be creaturely, calamitous, reassembling, fused with hope?