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WAX AND WANE

Hamish Coleman
Hamish Coleman
13.05.23–17.06.23
Season is delighted to present Wax and Wane, an exhibition of new paintings by Hamish Coleman.
The works emphasise plays of brightness and obscurity, light and shadow. Drawing on traditions of painting and lens-based art, they ponder the complex relationships between lived experience, memory, and imagination.

HAMISH COLEMAN
Tag, 2023
Oil on linen
400 x 400mm
HAMISH COLEMAN
Bathed in Pink, 2023
Oil on linen
1400 x 1200mm

HAMISH COLEMAN
Wax and Wane, 2023
Oil on linen
1400 x 1200mm
Murmuring shadows
An essay by Francis McWhannell in response to Wax and Wane.
'The potency of interference pigments tends to intensify when they are applied thinly over dark grounds. The veil in As Days Get Dark, for example, is noticeably stronger outside the margins of the central image, where it overlays the black cherry skin of the painted frame. Likewise, the crisp green rectangle in Wax and Wane is most legible at the top left of the work, where it is offset over the border. In this case, the interference layer disrupts our understanding of how the picture has been made, giving the impression that a printing process has been used. No such process is at play. As with all Coleman’s works, the reference image has been produced by camera but translated into paint strictly by hand.'
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HAMISH COLEMAN
Shadows Lengthen, 2023
Oil on linen
400 x 400mm
HAMISH COLEMAN
As Days Get Dark, 2023
Oil on linen
1200 x 1200mm