Brightly coloured yellow and green curved surfaces embrace the space of the garden between them, creating an open gallery reminiscent of two sound barriers. The viewer is invited to traverse, encircling the two surfaces of expressive marks that frame small paintings, to acknowledge their supporting structure as part sculpture, part painting. The scale of these diminutive paintings creates density at the heart of the work.

Then hand of the artist is very much in evidence, as hints of landscape emerge from the painterly drawings,opening a conduit between internal and external worlds. Moving intuitively between the personal and the situational, place relationality is explored through process and material.

Orme uses oil stick on powder coated steel to work up these large surfaces, which are then coated in lacquer. The metal absorbs the warmth of the day making them unexpectedly tactile and approachable.

Orme (b.1986) studied Fine Art (BA hons) at UWE, Bristol 2009 and Sculpture (MFA) at the Slade 2019. Whilst at the Slade he was awarded the Felix Slade Bursary and the Prenkerd Jones Memorial grant, and also selected for the HKBU residency in Hong Kong, December 2019. He was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019, Towner International 2020 and This is water 2021. (Workplace Gallery 2021).