Sorcha Dallas

Wider than the sky brings together works that function as a postscript to a journey, experience or ideology – a moment or pause. Individual worlds are constructed by interweaving multiple narratives according to a deeply personal logic. Many of the artists are engaged in an ongoing process of research, navigating an idiosyncratic path through the past with works operating as an open-ended enquiry. A certain nostalgia may be implied but is always grounded by the specific vantage point of the present. History is used as raw material, pillaged and reassembled, and immediate context paraphrased. The show takes its title from Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘The Brain – is wider than the sky’ alluding to the disparity between mental and physical horizons and acknowledging the gap between aspiration and lived experiences.

Kate Davis uses drawing and photography to develop a visual language that exists in a middle ground between two and three dimensions and real and imagined spaces. Her photographs often focus on uninhabited, in between spaces that possess an intimate presence in relation to Davis.