Each artist employs minimalist strategies to question the boundaries of their chosen medium. Stephan Ehrenhofer’s restrained textile and mixed media works evoke a quiet precision, reflecting on the intrinsic qualities of materials and the legacy of non-objective art. His pared-back compositions invite close attention to the relationships between surface, texture, and form.
Molly Thomson’s constructed paintings operate in a space between painting and sculpture, where the panel is cut, fractured, and reassembled. Her works carry the traces of their own making—scars, shifts, and imperfect geometries that destabilise the object and resist easy resolution. These are paintings that question what should be seen, and what lies just beyond the surface.
Derek Wilson brings a sculptural sensibility to the ceramic vessel, abstracting functional forms into complex constructions that play with balance, light, and shadow. His wall-based pieces embrace subtle tonal variations and the quiet drama of surface tension, leaning into the interplay between interior and exterior, utilitarian and abstract.
Together, these artists create objects that press against the limits of their forms—where edges meet, surfaces fracture, and materials quietly resist. Surface Tensions invites us to slow down, to notice, and to question the delicate spaces where making and meaning converge.
