Alexis Zelda Stevens

Following her 2 month residency at ArtSway, Alexis returned to install her work in the main gallery. The installations are tactile extensions of her earlier painting, a reinterpretation of her developing visual language in 3D form.

Alexis has been exploring the ways in which meaning and structure can be ruptured and fragmented by inserting forms that evoke emotional or intuitive responses, that touch on the uncanny. Through suggesting familiar spaces, but where a disturbing decentring of meaning occurs, she is stressing the importance and the presence of the intuitive, in a world where meaning and logical cohesion predominate.

In the main gallery, suspended timbers create an oppressive space, whilst also enlivening it with shadows. Through these emerge tree forms, painted an unnaturally bright pink. Other forms articulate the space below the timbers.

In the second room, cast forms lie on the floor, and boards referencing the supports of paintings - all are apparently recognisable, but on closer look they confound expectations and throw the viewer's attention back on to themselves and their physical relationship with the forms in the confined space.

The exhibition continues until 19 June.

On the first day of the exhibition, 30 April, Alexis talked about her work with the Director of ArtSway, Mark Segal.

Work carried out by Alexis during her residency can be seen on work in progress