Mircea Teleaga’s painting continually questions the notion of emotional ownership of places and by extension the ownership of memories. The principal influence on Teleagă’s practice is his relationship with the landscape of his native country Romania.Starting with faded industrial spaces and the uncertainty of borders and frontiers, his paintings open a conversation which focuses on intimate, impalpable space. Accepting the transience of these places and the constructed nature of his memories, Teleagăcreates numerous ghostly, yet rich, versions of them. Paintings which exist as afterlives that must be worked and reworked. A method which hints at the many alternate versions of our everydays.

Caroline Jane Harris blends traditional and contemporary means of image-making through analogue and digital processes. Working mainly with a scalpel to cut out pixelated images drawn from nature, she makes enquiries into concepts of materiality, digitality and the artist’s hand, exploring our relationship with natural environments in the Information Age. The works function as a contemplative space and meditative experience for both artist and viewer. The fragility of the papercuts is analogous not only to anxiety around the dissolution of physical images in the digital age, but also to the preciousness of our brief experience in this world.

 For both artists, a personal encounter with the physical presence of an artwork is paramount. Bringing these two together allows a play of surface, scale and space to resonate with the subjectivity of the viewer.

The exhibition includes poems that take the practices of the two artists as their point of departure: artist, educator and curator Nick Scammell on Mircea Teleaga, and poetry heavyweight, librettist and playwright Glyn Maxwell on Caroline Jane Harris.