Patricia McParlin
Drawing on Patricia's background as a musician, writer and theatre practitioner, these works are a stage where colour, form and gesture perform together, creating rhythms, pauses and crescendos that resonate beyond the painted surface
This exhibition presents a body of work in which painting unfolds like a sequence of movements in time—part dance, part music, part theatre.
At the heart of the exhibition is an exploration of the physicality of paint: layered, scraped, poured and brushed in sweeping passages that suggest motion long after they have dried. Colour becomes both performer and script—shifting from subtle harmonies to bold clashes—while textures and marks trace the choreography of the artist’s decisions in real time. Each work captures an instant where thought and emotion converge, collapsing the distance between what is seen and what is felt, the literal and the metaphorical.
“Choreographies of Colour” also reflects McParlin’s enduring interest in art’s power to occupy more than one place at once: inner and outer, real and imagined, present and past. The paintings evoke half-remembered spaces and fleeting sensations, inviting viewers to move through them as participants rather than spectators, completing the dance with their own memories and associations. In this way, the exhibition becomes an immersive score—an unfolding performance in which each encounter is unique, provisional and alive.