'An Everlasting Once'
Matthew Hindley at iArt GalleryIn An Everlasting Once, Hindley continues his ongoing meditation on the studio as testing ground for a potential creative utopia or, on the other hand, the breakdown of such ideals. Subject matter for the paintings is gathered via a series of shoots, for which Hindley directs scenes much like in the theater, creating tableaus of people, animals and props.
The title of the exhibition refers to Hindley’s desire to capture what Cartier-Bresson has described as the ‘defining moment’ - a moment frozen in time. Lloyd Pollack, in his recent essay on the exhibition suggests that Hindley’s work “is not just a return to figuration [but] something far deeper and more profound, a new concept of painting as a synthesis of photography, cinema, theatre and performance deployed in discontinuous and fragmented narratives.”
23 February - 23 March













