True Fiction

4 Dec 2024-31 Jan 2025

Overview

JGM Gallery presents True Fiction, an exhibition of works by ten figurative artists. 
 
True Fiction explores the means through which the exhibiting artists abstract their subject, so as to convey a deeper and more wholistic understanding of it. Partly inspired by JGM Gallery's summer exhibition, Revelation & Concealment, which sought to uncover hidden aspects of the natural world, True Fiction turns instead toward the anthropocentric, examining the ways in which texture, composition and line, amongst other formal elements, may divulge complexities in the figure beyond superficial representation. It is the aim of this exhibition, as Francis Bacon once said, to “... trap appearance without making an illustration of it...” and to affirm this as one “... of the great excitements of being a figurative artist...” (Francis Bacon, in conversation with William Burroughs, 1982).