Encounters from Sherylle Dovaston

Civitas speaks to the complexities of attachment to place and objects, especially in urban environments, while exposing consumerism. Within urban landscapes, we surround ourselves with comforting tangible objects that might delight or serve us, yet we discard them as easily - when their charm no longer consoles us. Reminiscent of civic or industrial landscapes, the black shapes wander across the canvas, conjoined by scrawls and blocks of colour to emphasise the duality of separateness within connectedness. The viewer is further confounded by the ambiguous, almost floating composition, alluding to the nebulous and fleeting consolation of material things.