Zuleika Gallery is delighted to present Dance with me in the Sunlit Pools, a solo exhibition of new works by Carrie Stanley. The title of the show draws from lyrics from Jig of Life by Kate Bush. A song that embraces ‘seizing the day’, making a meaningful impact and cherishing the bond between individuals and their loved ones. Stanley describes her journey towards this exhibition as “a meeting place though the realm of painted memory”. Her uniquely personal approach embodies her response to finding a cache of her late husband’s celluloid negatives and working directly from them rather than the photographs. On raw linen, her works emerge slowly just as an analogue photograph emerges from the development process. For Stanley, painting is ‘automatic’ and intuitive, and breaths new life into her memories. These in turn become something ‘other’ in the process; embedded in the fabric and paint and given a new identity. In their new lives, brushstrokes musically morph though forms which are biomorphic and often figurative. The paintings emerge as acts of joyful reverence embracing past, present and future. A celebration of a transmutative journey embedded in their material presence.
