Exhibition Dates

18th October – 3rd November 2024

Private view
LIVE PERFORMANCE
Thursday 17^th October 2024
6 – 10.30pm

Tuesday – Saturday
1 – 6pm

CLOSED
Sunday / Monday

SPECTRAL NATION
HERETIC

featuring artists

Richard Fearless
Nik Void
Ultramarine
The Maghreban
Kenichi Iwasa

Spectral Nation – Ambient Haze
Improvised screen-printed monotypes, sonic translations

On display are new works from Spectral Nation’s ‘Eraze Phaze’, and ‘Ambient Haz’e series, accompanied by audio arrangements created in response by selected electronic musicians. Also on show are collaged compositions using ‘byproduct’ masking papers, usually a discarded part of the process.
The screen-printed monotype works Eraze Phaze use an amalgam of techniques, in an improvised manner, with no fixed outcome. Hand pulled raw gestural first passes collide with smoother blended gradients. Layers of hand cut masking stencils clash and combine with discordant colour combinations, building texture and creating visual tension in increasingly complex and psychedelic scenes.

The Ambient Haze series are meditations on colour. Using a diffusion dither stencil technique to build up layers of gradients, expansive colour interactions arise. The half way line providing a reference point alluding to a horizon. As sound and image combine, rhythmic structures within the sound works find visual echoes in the screen printed compositions, these audio progressions evoke chromatic depth. Within these sonic landscapes boundaries of perception become warped, colour vibrates and sound manifests as a visual texture.

Sound response:
Kenichi Iwasa
Nik Void
Ultramarine
Richard Fearless
The Maghreban
Mister Hongo

Spectral Nation is a collaboration between
Therese Vandling, Luke Frost and Jon Rundall.