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Intimacy, awareness, sexuality and repulsion are tangled together within the second group show at Guts Gallery HQ. Using painting, ‘The Artist is Present’ dissects our perceptions of reality, confronting our preconceived beliefs, ideas and illusions. Visual imagery is introduced as a focal point for sincerity. Vulnerabilities are explored, while modes of escapism and separation from the anticipated, calculated and expected are traversed.

Various paintings are dressed with intimate scenes plucked from the heart of unguarded interactions. Cinematic stills anamnestically evoke nostalgia of …