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Slash comprises the art - primarily painting, photographic and sculpture but also including installation and digital means - of
Aidan Abernethy, Christine Allman, Dennis Caswell, Kathryn Caswell and Anna MacRae.
The work of the five artists differs but coming together - for practical and professional reasons, including enabling more frequent exhibitions - to exploit the Slash, has motivated and focused their efforts. The contrast of methods and contents highlights their individual approaches and offers contemporary art collectors and the wider audience greater choice and full, vivid and satisfying exhibitions. They may be different from each other, but they have the Slash in common.
In this context, Slash stands for the complex process integral to the production of an art work, from inception through to its eventual resolution. Slash pinpoints and acknowledges the unnameable elements; the enigmatic and illusive choices, inherent in a considered art work, which binds the material with the immaterial.
Applying the word rather than the symbol to emphasise its deliberate use, Slash is open to limitless forms of interpretation. It provides a short-form definition of the tipping point or linking point between doubts and conflicts; the balancing of uncertainties and tensions; the acceptance of accident or choice of deliberate action: all necessary tests and turns towards disclosing an adequate work. Such Slash points might range from the choice of vehicle within which to address eternal issues to a scrupulous consideration of the intensity of a particular colour.
Slash takes account of connection or division, of association or contradiction - the weighing of thought, aims and actions which lead to the determination of form and content of a valid piece of art. Slash is the yes or no moment, the moment of finding courage and skill to follow ephemeral, unquantified, instinct and inspiration.
But without the art there is no Slash.
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