Loose Threads

An exhibition with artists invited by Mari Eastman.

“When I was asked by Bernat and Joana to put together a show  – I selected friends, former students, colleagues whose work I had recently come across and was entranced by, old friends making work which I had loved for years.  Most of what I picked felt fresh to me in the moment, and urgent, or had the long familiarity and sustained interest of a novel, or the quality of good friendships that feel comfortable yet alive.

When I think about what connects the work, it is probably concerns that I recognise, that I grapple with myself:  the day to day, a love of aesthetics (by which I mean, letting the form and look of the work lead the meaning) a sense of humour, a light touch to serious subjects or light subjects given serious attention.  It will be for you, the audience, to figure out which is which. (…)”