Dissonance

‘Dissonance’ brings together the work of London-based artists Kelly Frank and Laura Porter, whose work focuses on identity through the figurative and the non-figurative; the absent and the unknown.

Kelly’s vivid paintings explore the themes of identity, memory, and subjectivity. She uses layering to weave seemingly unrelated imagery to explore the fragility of human perspective. Kelly is fascinated by the malleability of memories and how it threatens the idea of the absolute truth. The canvas is regularly rotated, both in its creation and display to offer a unique experience on each day of the show.

Laura Porter’s sculptures are made with discarded clothing – a material that carries with it cyclical histories of land, worker, consumer, and waste - which she breaks down by hand and turns into a textiles pulp. Exploring the in-betweenness of repurposed materials and built spaces, and the man-made as a quasi-living entity, Laura re-imagines our material world as neither rigid nor organic - straddling the space between biological and human-made; rural and urban; lived and inactive.