Seed Gallery - Rebecca Thomson

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Rebecca Thomson suite Preview: Tuesday 30 March, 6-8pm
In a blithe play on words, Rebecca Thomson’s new suite of prints and small sculptural pieces, titled suite, enters our most private of domestic spaces: the bedroom.
Within this body of work is the recurring, recognisable motif of the bed. Bedspreads and bed heads are flattened and preserved as miniature relics - vestiges of forgotten sleep - while variations in shape and size suggest a family of absent inhabitants.
Another important motif is the resealable plastic bag. A series of collagraph prints represents plastic bags holding collections of ephemera; a comment, perhaps, on the human tendency to collect and keep seemingly insignificant things.
Thomson’s titles signify a gentle push back against the increasingly absurd and tawdry naming of bedroom suites: Manhattan, Seville, Diana and royale. Notwithstanding this element of humour, the prints have the graceful ambiguity that characterises Thomson’s work. Surfaces are ghostly and atmospheric, and the subtle layering of colour, contradictions of scale and shifts in compositional balance give the pieces a pleasing, measured tension.
Special thanks to Invivo Wines