English Breakfast

Morley Shayuk

new paintings
September 11 - October 10, 2015


New Work

New Work , 2015

Working within the mediums of painting and sculpture Morley Shayuk and Amy Bowles individually engage and challenge consumptive behaviours by offering ambiguous strategies for transformation and personal growth. Together, Shayuk and Bowles redress transatlantic post-colonial themes through the wisdom, power and persistence of Nature.

A series of small abstract oil paintings by Morley Shayuk observe the virtues of the organic shape. Compositions are disturbed by rigorous reshaping of surface and form, which explore the garden and facilitate creative renewal. Themes of nature become ornamental, objectified and controlled through experimental working methods. Morley Shayuk lives and works in Toronto.

New ceramic works by Amy Bowles signal an earthly invitation. Terracotta and white earthenware clay renderings of garden dwellers harken back to Bowles's rural English childhood. Thatched and cobbled motifs deny the bucolic chocolate box environs of rural south west England for the fearful potential of the calling of the underworld. Amy Bowles studied ceramic design in Cardiff, Wales, and lives and works in Toronto.