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In her hypnagogic environments, architectonic planes sit alongside abstracted forms, evoking archetypal physical spaces and objects that invoke feelings and memories. For Stephenson, oil paint is a tool for navigating her unconscious, giving form and structure to emotions, ideas and the slippery nature of memory itself. Made over the course of a year, the paintings in ‘Mary! Go Round’ conjure liminal realms that exist somewhere between the internal and external world or, in her own words, ‘where the figurative shifts into abstract’.

In addition to the paronymic pun of the ‘merry-go-round’, …