Realignment: Molly Thomson

3 - 28 June 2023

- Molly Thomson
  Untitled (small void)
  Acrylic on panel construction
  46 x 43 x 12 cm
  
  £ 2,000.00
- Molly Thomson
  Untitled (jagged, with niche)
  Acrylic on panel construction
  26 x 28 x 4.5 cm
  
  £ 1,500.00
Untitled (interior tilt), acrylic on panel construction, 30 x 27.5 x 6.6 cm

The body of work that forms the exhibition, has grown from Thomson's concern with the performance of the painting as an object. She is interested in conditions that confine, resist and limit, and in what happens when those given conditions are subject to question and boundaries are breached. The exhibition’s title refers to the processes of reorganisation involved after certainties are disrupted and a new position must be reached, albeit one that isn’t immune to question.
- Molly Thomson
  Untitled (expansion)
  Acrylic on panel construction
  49 x 34 x 5 cm
  
  £ 1,900.00
- Molly Thomson
  Untitled (wedged opening)
  Acrylic on panel construction
  36 x 45 x 5 cm
  
  £ 1,900.00
Untitled (punctured painting), acrylic on panel construction, 38 x 30.5 cm

The process begins with de-stabilising the traditional rectangular format through acts of cutting that destroy the panel’s symmetry and begin to animate the object. Removed elements may be returned, recycled or repurposed, but the tiny losses that occur with each cut cannot be entirely made up for; scars and mendings may be evident.
The paintings present their facades, including sometimes a glimpse of their interiors, and angular forms may protrude like redundant bits of architecture. In some pieces structural displacements trigger complication and uncertainty in the object; elements which seem to be exposed parts of the painting’s substructure are found to be not in the expected place or orientation, generating a question about what is being seen.
- Molly Thomson, Untitled (void,stabilised)
- Molly Thomson
  Untitled (quadruple corner)
  Acrylic on panel construction
  26 x 20.5 x 9 cm
  
  £ 1,900.00
Untitled (slot and block), acrylic on panel construction, 42 x 40 x 10 cm

Molly Thomson studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art and painting at the Royal College of Art in London. She lives and works in Norfolk.

The exhibition is also part of NT Art Month.

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