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Urban Currents
A compelling exhibition featuring works by artists Tracey Lewis, Graham Parker, and Martin Lovell.
Running from July 5 to July 26, 2025, this exhibition offers a thought-provoking exploration of movement, change, and the enduring relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Tracey Lewis
Tracey Lewis's contributions to "Urban Currents" delve into the multifaceted concept of movement, drawing parallels between tidal cycles and the powerful political, social, and economic shifts shaping our urban landscapes and coastlines. Lewis employs a semi-abstract style with a raw, rendered texture, capturing the energy of industrial scenes on architectural vellum and canvas using acrylics. Her seascapes embody an unplanned urgency, seizing fleeting moments of light piercing stormy skies and the dramatic impact of waves on windswept shores.
Martin Lovell
Continuing this dynamic trio is ceramist Martin Lovell, whose work for "Urban Currents" reflects mechanical forms, shapes, and textures observed in industrial settings. His multi-coloured surfaces of worn machinery expose different layers of use and human activity, exploring themes of degradation and erosion through intuitive development and underglaze applications.
Graham Parker
Joining Lewis and Lovell is Swansea-born artist Graham Parker, whose expressive horizons and seascapes focus on the captivating allure of coastal environments. Parker's paintings capture the inherent tranquility, expansive sense of space, and almost mystical presence found where sea, land, and sky converge. His artistic focus lies on the horizon line—that seemingly solid yet perpetually shifting boundary where elements meet.
“My aim as a painter is to guide the viewer into and beyond this magical space, where hopes and dreams exist and particles of light and colour, pop and sparkle,” explains Graham Parker.