This solo show, which took place at the Briggait in Glasgow, was the third in a series of exhibitions including ‘Oh My Have’ (2015) and ‘Hugs n Fun-Fun’ (2013), emanating from the same line of enquiry. The project has involved a simultaneous investigation of three different sub-categories of literary theory and painting practice: collage (the pictorial discipline of constructing and deconstructing images through montage), anachronism (the idea of displacing objects from their proper time period) and ekphrasis (the process of describing visual art objects and visual experiences in literature). The exhibition incorporated drawing, painting, two- and three-dimensional collage and a rhythmically constructed poem. A recurrent image in the show was that of ‘Oedipus and the Sphinx’ as described by the author Edmund White in his satirical account of Gustave Moreau’s painting (which tends towards informality, anachronism and bathos). Both gallery spaces were sealed off for the duration of the exhibition, thereby restricting the audience’s view of the works to the windows on either side - these glass enclosures housed the paintings in the manner of a shop-window, vitrine or expanded picture frame.

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