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Call me a horse!’*
‘You are a horse!’

Shakespeare meets ‘Singing in the Rain’; two quotes, or ‘mis-quotes’ if you like, brought together making a cheap gag. ‘Pop’ meets ‘CULTURE’.

Painting is the opposite of a cheap gag, yet a cheap gag can often inspire one to paint. Although the paintings in this show go far beyond a visual pun, humour is there – and why not? Not in post-modernism’s ‘ironic’ way – it’s more subtle than that. Dead pan, perhaps, but dare I say it, there’s romance there too.

Perhaps united by a form of meta-painting in various guises, the artists in this show are explicit in …