Everything Might Happen – Julia Flanagan

Julia Flanagan’s debut exhibition with Michael Reid unfolds in vivid, jubilant cadences of colour, pattern and form, and reveals an artist working at full stretch within a language she has made her own.  The paintings seem animated by the same rhythm: lines curve, return and cross themselves, slipping between foreground and background as though intent on binding the works together. Many begin as drawings—quick, provisional notations made at a domestic table or studio bench—before widening into fields of paint.  From there, fragments are enlarged, spliced, rephrased; a sliver from an earlier canvas becomes the seed of the next. Quilting squares, remembered from her mother’s sewing, over geometric ballast, though that order is soon unsettled by curves and arcs that dip and weave like the thread pulled through cloth. The result is a choreography of parts—disciplined, but never still.

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