Natural selections
Here's a show with surprises. It's characterised by the use of unlikely materials to make subtle and sensitive works, themed around conflicting relationships between humans and nature. Lloyd Durling creates rich, resonant studies of natural forms through his obsessive use of prosaic ballpoint pens (such as Wunderkammer, 2008, above); the scale of his enterprise outclassing other practitioners of this nutty medium, now so popular with young artists. Yuken Teruya works with discarded paper - carrier bags and loo roll tubes - to create finely wrought struggles between nature and consumer manufacture. Masakatsu Kondo's paintings on the other hand are more traditional, but still thematically relevant - here, finally, nature seems to reassert itself and answer back.








