A portrait of artist Eve Ackroyd stood in her studio

A portrait of Simeon Barclay holding a transparent overhead projector acrylic that says 'plus so much more' backwards in marker pen in front of his face.

A sculpture by Ryan Gander with an upturned chair covered in snow

A photo by Nan Goldin of a figure standing on a dark beach

A painting by Merlin James of a building on a beach

a photo of a vase of flowers on a red table

A portrait of Robin Megannity in his studio by John-Paul Brown

A portrait of Pei Wang sat in a dark room holding a paintbrush

A portrait of Hannah Perry sat on a tyre in the studio

A portait of Ki Yoong leant on a table in his studio wearing a white t-shirt and ablue trousers

Kerlin Gallery is pleased to present Pictures of You,  curated by Miles Thurlow, Co-founder of WORKPLACE.

The exhibition brings together 16 international and multigenerational artists, whose of images, objects and actions evoke specific, often fleeting, moments whilst simultaneously revealing incisive reflections on time, memory and social structures. 

’s large-scale installation Rage Fluids weaves through Pictures of You both physically and sonically, with huge sheets of curved metal and car wrap activated by the rumbling sound and vibrational energy of car stereo subwoofers. Similarly influenced by the industrial context of the North of England, 

 references his father’s work as a tailor and childhood memories of playing dress-up in Pop Pose, rupturing the fashion industry’s veneer of cool. 

 presents iconic modernist chairs – Gerrit Rietveld’s crate chair, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily B3 – overturned and covered in a marble ‘snow’, teasing out a web of issues around class, aspiration, manufacturing, and taste.

Drawing upon a rich archive of anonymous analogue photographs, 

 transforms deeply personal memories into shimmering, impressionistic images that transcend their source material and tap into a broader collective memory. 

’s small, intimate paintings explore the interpersonal dynamics of familial relationships and friendships, as well as her interiority and reflections on quotidian life. 

’s exuberant, expressive paintings capture heightened moments of anxiety and melodrama. Upturned legs in pond suggest a disastrous event, but light handling of paint and a pastel palette give the subject a lightness of touch and disarming gentleness.

’s tactile paintings give abstract forms to queer erotic encounters. Bodily fluids and bodily contact are insinuated through glittering, polychromatic surfaces, sprayed and hand-smeared paint, and distorted, suggestive forms. 

’s paintings were guided by a belief in the primacy of feeling. Taking on the guise of objective minimalism and the monochrome, he presented us with so much more: nature as something real, tangible, all around us, to be touched and felt. 

 captures her friend and collaborator, the Irish artist/filmmaker Vivienne Dick, in a moment of cosmic wonder on an isolated beach, then turns the lens outwards to a lavender-infused, psychedelic vision of the Donegal coast. 

’s paintings depict vernacular architecture, riverside views, post-industrial landscapes and moments of intimacy. His paintings of isolated buildings invited us to ruminate on distance and connection.

’s 1969 video piece Lemon gives a close study of a single citrus fruit, its devotional gaze drawing out the fruit’s bodily and sculptural qualities, and transforming a humble everyday object into something meditative and profound. 

’s small-scale, intimate portraits have the feel of a small shrine or devotional object. Closely cropped to frame their subjects’ faces, each work captures a vulnerability and sense of deep connection between artist and sitter. 

’s photographs deromanticise the popularly sentimental and yet their sensitivity to light, framing and texture give them a cinematic quality. Responding to the increasingly dematerialised nature of contemporary image making, Cunnane remains connected to the physicality of the production process, printing his photographs by hand in a darkroom.

’s luminous paintings give cinematic depictions of mostly female subjects, building colour and depth using meticulous Renaissance techniques. 

 painstakingly creates digital environments using 3D graphics software, which then become the source material for his otherworldly paintings. Referencing Northern European still life paintings and using traditional techniques, they nevertheless include the glitches, ruptures and defamiliarised atmosphere of their digital origins. 

 treats the eternally-intriguing subject of the human form is treated with delicacy and attentiveness. Using casein tempera, an ancient form of paint derived from milk, his paintings offer a deliberate ‘slowing down’ of image-making.

A sculpture by Ryan Gander of an upturned chair with snow resting on the surface 

Ireland

Dublin

Kerlin Gallery

Kerlin Gallery's Pictures of You, curated by Miles Thurlow, showcases 16 global artists. Their works capture fleeting moments, offering insights into time and memory.

Pictures of You

Related Artists

Eve Ackroyd

Simeon Barclay

James Cabaniuk

Hollis Frampton

Ryan Gander

Nan Goldin

Merlin James

Sooim Jeong

Rachel Lancaster

Laura Lancaster

Samuel Laurence Cunnane

William McKeown

Robin Megannity

Wang Pei

Hannah Perry

Ki Yoong

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