PROCESSED SPACE​

Processed Space is the inaugural exhibition for Lacey Contemporary Gallery which brings together the works of three outstanding young British painters working today – Ross M Brown, Geoff Diego Litherland and Merlin Ramos.

The work in this exhibition explores the tension between the natural world and its grasping appropriation by human influence. This interest centres specifically upon ambiguous spaces and interfaces at the edges of the built environment where boundaries between civilization and nature, order and disorder, past and present have become blurred and indistinct. The paintings become subject, flitting between abstract/representational, accidental/intentional and constructive/destructive through a range of techniques.

Each artist employs a combination of technical and chance based processes to challenge the rigidity of linear perspective, each painting undergoes a series of constructive and destructive approaches, mirroring each site’s descent from a rational, geometric state into one of ambiguity and flux. The aim is to question what the spaces possibly once meant to us and their meaning to us today