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Kindred

Kindred

Date
19 October - 9 November 2019
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Quiet Moonlight
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Tunnels
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Moon Cloud
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Oxana Red
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Columbine Capers
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Day Moon
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Tulipa Tarda
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Curls of Frost
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones The Power of Choice
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Today I Lost My Glove
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Crystal Cloud
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones A Precious Day
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones All Our Letters
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Words Are Easy Like the Wind
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones A New Life Begins
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Be As A Bird
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Messages of Belonging
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Kitty
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Helena
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Julianna
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Imogen
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Liliana
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Madeleine
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Formation
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Eclipse
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Flock
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Heritage
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Towers
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Meant To Bee
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Hive
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Look Out
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones The Resident
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Mend Your Ways Too
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Fresco
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Battery
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Fly Over
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Abandoned
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Hive 2
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Discovery
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Bluebird and Brutalism
  • Hybrid Gallery Jay Jones Remain

Kindred by birth and in spirit, Irene and Jay have rarely shown their work side by side. Their painting and sculpture appears contrasting at first yet coming together to exhibit, echoes resound. Imagery of bluebirds, windows and openings, skies and stitching link the two, carrying particular meanings for each of them. 

Jay reflects on the histories which weave through the fabric of objects, architecture and images. She looks ahead too, seeing the signals to future environmental collapse. Using collage and motifs of technical distortion she expresses a confusion as the present uncomfortable realities mingle with the familiar forms and traditions of the past. 

Irene’s paintings evidence her love of Elizabethan portraiture, of history, drama and costume. Working intuitively her portraits emerge slowly from the paint. On first appearance historical, they actually reveal a 21st century sensibility and present a cohort of strong women. Concerned with the perennial issues of human life; love, loss, deceit, desire and belonging, Irene affirms the continuity that exists within the passage of time.