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When I paint, I’m trying to find feeling.  It’s as simple, and complicated as that.

Ceremony by Jack Trolove

“I try to make paintings that remind us how much emotional muscle we have. The materiality of paint holds a lot – it can carry gestures and energies that are unsettling, disturbing or blissful, and sensations like plummeting and flight, simultaneously. The more years I spend painting, the more magical this seems to me.

The raw linen shows through the paint; these paintings are not whole stories. If anything, they’re the holes in stories, showing themselves being made and undone. Untethering at the threshold. I find paintings themselves can work as thresholds, by creating a literal second skin to move through, to feel moved.

This exhibition is dedicated to those who work in transformational practices at other thresholds — to the keeners, kaikaranga, midwives, rongoā practitioners, palliative carers, choreographers, therapists and healers to name a few. To people who the world makes liminal, including those who live between gender — ours are some of many bodies that keep the thresholds of the world from closing down. To experts from the natural world: the mangroves, the dawn, the dusk, thank you for showing us how to thrive at the in-between.

These paintings are for you.”

– Jack Trolove

Jack Trolove in his studio with his works Bones (left) and Aerial Roots.
Photo by Rebecca Swan