We cant wait to see

We can't wait to see @ger.wyn Gerwyn Davies’ new exhibition ‘Utopia’ which will open at @janmurphygallery on the 25th of August. Gerwyn’s artist statement below gives great insight into this fascinating series. "The trope of Utopia is filled with the promise of unyielding pleasure and perfection. As a fictional construct Utopia is always out of reach and attempts to pin down this fantasy are commonly marked by failure. In this way, I am interested in real world Utopias as places that exist on a precipice, navigating the edges of illusion and reality, decadence and decay, that juggle revealing and concealing themselves in complex ways in order to maintain the artifice of perfection. These works respond to time spent in Los Angeles and Palm Springs; cities that emphasise allure, cities heavily invested in fantasy, cities with vibrantly rendered buildings and gardens that mask truths, cities whose emblematic palm trees are themselves works of fiction, imported and mass planted prior to the Olympics, props in a spectacle that survive as the city’s icons." Image: Gerwyn Davies, LA #2 (Norms) 2020