PAUL TURNER AND ROBERT BARTOLO  

SPACE 2

Exhibition dates : 28 July - 9 August 2026
Opening reception : Wed 29 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

People and Places - Dug out of a rabbit hole.

These works bring together a series of figurative, architectural, and semi-abstract works that explore the relationship between identity, memory, and the environments we inhabit. Moving between portraiture, landscape, and constructed space, the exhibition examines how people navigate the psychological terrain of contemporary life. Faces emerge fragmented and searching, while suburban scenes, imagined cityscapes, interiors, corridors, and thresholds become emotional spaces suspended between familiarity and uncertainty.

Through expressive colour, layered mark-making, and shifting perspectives, the works blur the boundaries between observation and memory, reality and imagination. Landscapes and interiors function as psychological environments where personal experience intersects with broader social constructs and urban psychology. Together, these paintings and drawings reflect the subtle tensions between comfort and dislocation, vulnerability and resilience, inviting viewers to consider the unseen emotional architectures that shape everyday life.