Dig: Chaka Chikodzi, Ben Darrah, Pat McDermott, Joan Scaglione, Su Sheedy, Sharon Thompson

A presentation of six inventive contemporary art practices from Kingston, this exhibition draws together works of striking material intensity that break up paths of ordinary sense and action to expose uncommon potential. Featured works include stone sculpture by Chaka Chikodzi, wall assemblages by Ben Darrah, Pat McDermott’s distilled figurations, sculptural pilings and swells by Joan Scaglione, Su Sheedy’s encaustic colour quarries and Sharon Thompson’s shimmering oil and sand paintings. By tracing the sensuous pull between artistic sensibility and wood, wax, stone and paint, these artists make new and surprising contributions to primal artists’ activities: building form and cleaving matter to free an unexpected life.