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During the last year, painter Kate Halsall has embarked on a very specific project, to capture her subjects while sleeping. Artists have always had a fascination for the recumbent form of a sleeping figure, and the idea that something beyond our ordinary conscious self is revealed during the time we are asleep.

In this series of twelve new oil paintings Halsall has gathered images of people who have found themselves asleep for a number of different reasons. Two children are tucked into bed, one assumes by their parents, a woman dozes on her sofa, a young tattooed man makes a mess of his …