Tracing Absence

Tracing Absence brings together works by several artists who find reflection in empty spaces where human presence is silently implied. 

Abandoned objects, rooms and buildings, empty roads and lonely horizons become ambiguous scenes, to which only a trace of life that came before or after is alluded. Depictions of interiors by Patrick Caulfield, Paul Winstanley, Hurvin Anderson and Paul Noble are pointedly devoid of people. In their works a sense of melancholy, or in the case of Noble, urgency, pervades the human story that is hinted at having unfolded. Stepping outside, works by Christiane Baumgartner, Emma Stibbon and Clare Woods present vast landscapes and horizons that have been shaped and marked by human activity.