Pairs
Group Show
4 – 20 September 2025
Benjamin Cotter Dephoff, James Watkins, Esme Lansdowne, Emma Hercus, and Jess Swney
Brought together under the title of Pairs, this exhibition unfolds as a series of conversations between two works by each artist — pieces chosen for the way they sit together, share a rhythm, or gently contrast. Side by side, they offer a glimpse into the shifts and continuities within a practice: a change in light, a deepened idea, a return to a familiar form.
Featuring Benjamin Cotter Dephoff, James Watkins, Esme Lansdowne, Emma Hercus, and Jess Swney, the show spans oil painting, earth pigments, and rug tufting. Each pairing invites a slower look — to notice echoes, tensions, and harmonies that emerge when works meet, and to witness the new meanings they create together.
ARTWORKS
James Watkins
Oil and soft pastel on canvas
Tobacco stained Meranti tray frame
435 x 540 mm
Jess Swney
Wool on monks cloth
Meranti timber tray frame in tobacco
385 x 435 mm
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Jess Swney
Wool on monks cloth
Meranti timber tray frame in tobacco
385 x 435 mm
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James Watkins
Oil and charcoal on canvas
Tobacco stained Meranti tray frame
435 x 540 mm
Emma Hercus
Acrylic paint and linen collage, black ash frame
790 x 1030 mm
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Emma Hercus
Acrylic paint and linen collage, black ash frame
790 x 1030 mm
Unavailable
James Watkins
Oil, acrylic, soft pastel, and charcoal on canvas
Tobacco stained Meranti tray frame
1025 x 1170 mm
James Watkins
Oil, acrylic, soft pastel, wax pastel, and charcoal on canvas
Tobacco stained Meranti tray frame
1025 x 1170 mm
Esme Lansdowne
Acrylic, earth pigment, charcoal, slip and oil pastel on canvas
Framed with American ash
430 x 330 mm
Esme Lansdowne
Acrylic, earth pigment, charcoal, slip and oil pastel on canvas
Framed with American ash
430 x 330 mm
James Watkins
Oil and soft pastel on canvas
Tobacco stained Meranti tray frame
435 x 540 mm
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