Virga Gallery

Gallery I: The Fold

Section 1: The windowless upper chamber

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Sophia Wisdom ©Natasha Green a seated female figure cloaked in a midnight blue veil with golden crown seated on dias with the night sky as a background.
Sophia Wisdom ©Natasha Green.

Artist: Natasha Green
Title: Sophia Wisdom
Medium: Acrylic, joss paper, velvet, silk, strands of pearls, beads, embroidery thread, gold gilding flakes, gold gilding and antique gold gilding wax on unstretched canvas.

Emotions and the Self 2 ©Wendy Moody, an abstract figure clothed in multi-coloured textures that flutter and billow.
Emotions and the Self 2 ©Wendy Moody

Artist: Dr Wendy Moody
Title: Emotions and
the Self 1&2
Medium: Photography, textures, and digital collage.

Emotions and the Self ©Wendy Moody, an abstract figure clothed in multi-coloured fabric that flutters and billows.
Emotions and the Self 1 ©Wendy Moody
f/olding ©Susan Sentler, a dancer's bowed head draped in shimmer grey folds of fabric.
f/olding ©Susan Sentler

Artist: Susan Sentler
Title: f/olding
Medium: Photography

Washed 04 ©Véronique Mermaz, an abstract lithographic print in shades of grey and pink.
Washed 04 ©Véronique Mermaz

Artist: Véronique Mermaz
Title: Washed o4
Medium: Lithography

Abstract #574 ©Jose Castro, an abstract digital collage in shades of gold, silver, bronze, and sky blue.
Abstract #574 ©Jose Castro

Artist: Jose Castro
Title: Abstract #574
Medium: Digital photomontage

Untitled 8 ©Sasha Dixon, video art.
The Fold of Light ©Yua Ye, video art.

Transition 1: To the body

Corners 1 ©Natasha Fontenelle, abstract painting in shades of white, black, blue, red, and grey.
Corners 1 ©Natasha Fontenelle

Artist: Natasha Fontenelle
Title: Corners 1
Medium: Mixed media collage – layered and stitched fabrics, paint, discarded domestic curtains

Section 2: Between the upper chamber and the lower chamber to come is the BODY and its material forms

Untitled #5 ©Ian Simpson, an abstract black and white photographic form that looks like a rock wrapped in cloth.
Untitled #5 ©Ian Simpson

Artist: Ian Simpson
Title: Untitled #5
Medium: Photograph, digital inkjet print

No vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end ©Jane Robb, black and white digital photograph of a hand holding textured pebbles.
No vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end ©Jane Robb

Artist: Dr Jane Robb
Title: No vestige of a beginning, no prospect
of an end
Medium: Digital photography and pen and ink collage 

Artist: Lisa Snook
Title: Liminus
Medium: Bronze

Liminus ©Lisa Snook, an abstract bronze form that looks like malleable clay.
Liminus ©Lisa Snook
entangled f/olded script ©Susan Sentler, black and white photograph of two clothed and entwined bodies taken from above with poetic text.
entangled f/olded script ©Susan Sentler

Artist: Susan Sentler
Title: entangled f/olded script
Medium: photography and text.

Artist: Andrea Coltman
Title: While you were sleeping xi
Medium: Oil and
fluorescent tape on linen

While you were sleeping ©Andrea Coltman, grisaille painting of a crouching male labourer with a mohawk haircut and three neaon pink and orange diagonal lines on an otherwise unpainted raw canvas
While you were sleeping ix ©Andrea Coltman
Revealed/Concealed ©Naomi Morris, video art.
Face down mouth open but lips pursed five-minute mouth exposure ©Megan Carnrite, deep red photograph made from the heat of the body rather than from a negative exposure.
Face down mouth open but lips pursed five-minute mouth exposure ©Megan Carnrite

Artist: Dr Megan Carnrite
Title: Paper in mouth slightly folded back on platform facing up
Medium: Chromogenic print

Paper in mouth slightly folded back on platform facing up ©Megan Carnrite, a glowing red photograph made from the heat of the body rather than from a negative.
Paper in mouth slightly folded back on platform facing up ©Megan Carnrite
Untitled 2 ©Mary Shaheen, a black, rose pink, and sky blue Rorscharch-like painting in the fold of scrolled paper.
Untitled 2 ©Mary Shaheen

Artist: Mary Shaheen
Title: Untitled 2
Medium: Mixed media including paper, acrylic paint, ink, bleach

Artist: Alan Jenkins
Title: Sandwich foil 3
Medium: Intaglio print

Sandwich foil 3 ©Alan Jenkins, an abstract intaglio print made from sandwich foil.
Sandwich foil 3 ©Alan Jenkins

Transition 2: To the lower chamber

Corners 4 ©Natasha Fontenelle, an abstract figure in shades of white, black, pale blue, red, and grey.
Corners 4 ©Natasha Fontenelle

Artist: Natasha Fontenelle
Title: Corners 4
Medium: Mixed media collage – layered and stitched fabrics, paint, discarded domestic curtains

Section 3: The windowed lower chamber where influences enter and affect

Tonight we sleep under the stars ©Natasha Green, a mixed media painting of two girls around a small fire under the canopy of trees.
Tonight we sleep under the stars ©Natasha Green

Artist: Natasha Green
Title: Tonight we sleep under the stars
Medium: Acrylic, velvet, silk, lace, appliqué, gold gilding, antique gold gilding wax, beading, textile birds, feathers, bells, embroidery thread and josspaper on unstretched canvas