Blue

Flin Sharp's exhibition Blue explores the fragile boundaries between perception, memory, and the mediated landscapes of contemporary imagery. Through layered, illusive gestures, Sharp interrogates how visual information is sensed. His works—featuring fragmented symbols like horses, flowers, and curtains—oscillate between clarity and ambiguity, inviting viewers to engage in the act of deciphering. The paintings' surfaces, marked by washes and reworked stratified marks, mirror the slipperiness of memory, where details emerge and recede. Sharp's process reflects engagement with representation in an age of image saturation, blending pop-culture, art historical references and archived internet imagery. Blue is a meditation on the tension between concrete images and their elusive meanings. The exhibition also includes a site-specific sound installation in the gallery stairwell, Field Recording, created in collaboration with Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans—a five-hour sound collage composed of personal collections of musical scores, soundscapes and found internet audio.