The Inevitable Shape - An exhibition linking current and past themes

I first began painting furniture when I was renting a hut in the Conondale hills in the mid eighties.

A weighty old fridge stood in the corner of my hut and, at night especially, it seemed to suggest a human presence.

My painting of the fridge was the beginning of a series of large, single-image compositions which explored a subtle relationship between the human body and furniture, functional objects and even household appliances.

This show revisits my interest in this subject which is the fluid relationship, both conscious and unconscious between the body and certain inanimate objects that seem to carry the load of human experience.