15th Feburary - 8th March 2024

Lovers is the title of Green On Red Gallery's spring 2024 group exhibition featuring new and earlier work by gallery artists in multiple media. The exhibition opens on Thursday, 15th February and runs to till the 8th of March, 2024, only. A theme in the exhibition is the pairing of two elements or two protagonists in intense proximity or juxtaposition.

Tom Hunter's Lover Set on Fire in Bed ( 2004 ) from the gallery's archive is the starting point for the exhibition ... Hunter has plundered compositions from the canonical collection of the National Gallery, London, for his gritty and violent compositions.

Love, in Lovers, has numerous twists and turns.

In Nil Yalter's Le Chevalier d'Éon ( 1978 ) the gender transformation of a loved one is sensitively addressed and explored in a mixed media installation of painting, photographs and video. Video only on view in Lovers. Le Chevalier d'Éon shows Yalter to be the fearless artist and activist that she is, confronting and processing burning and difficult socio-political issues of her day, often decades before others.

In diptychs like Fergus Martin's new White Moons ( 2024 ), in John Cronin's ZXX ( # 11 ) ( 2016 ) oil on etch-primed aluminium triptych and Xavier Theunis's Sans Titre ( Paysage #130.7 ) ( 2023 ) separate elements come kissably close. The intensity of precision and proximity is knife edge.

Elsewhere in Lovers, flowers of the imagination abound. " Flood's paintings and his sculptures are characterised by an emotional coexistence: melancholy, as if generated by the impression of a continuous loss of something, and joy, as when that something is found or rediscovered or, better, when it turns out that it's not that important. " ( Barbara Martusciello. )

Holding Each Other I & II, Physics Chasing Chemistry were titles from a new series of Lockdown Paintings ( 2020 ) by Mark Joyce made during the Covid-19 pandemic. Acrylic paint and bare lead pencil lines sit lightly and transparently on a gessoed, often aggressively sanded, white ground on wooden panels no more than 25 x 20 x 3cms. These paintings show Joyce at his most intimate.