DISLOCATION Joint exhibition by Karin Morris & Anne McCaughey.

Both artists are immersed in landscape as subject matter, but these landscapes surprise us by throwing up contradictions of scale and place and human inhabitants.

In Morris’s paintings the human figure is placed uncomfortably in its scape. Sitting or standing figures lead us to question their belonging in the painting. Uneasy in their space, they reflect human considerations of our relationship with nature. Morris’ gestural application of paint and transmutation of colour emphasise this sense of dislocation.

In McCaughey’s dreamscapes, interiors are crammed with landscape and a succession of female figures trying to move onwards but failing. There is a sense of movement but at the same time a static element to the figures, as they appear obsessed with overlarge systems of transport. The use of realistic modelling and colour enhances the tension within this unpredictable world.

Landscape as a foil for human occupation is an overarching theme. In both series of works there is evidence of a fractured human relationship with the landscape and an uncertainty of what is real in existence.