"“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine, who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle, with an object in the middle of it, that they can identify."

William Eggleston

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Object Avoidance, the title and theme of this exhibition, was very much inspired by the Eggleston quote on the preceding pages. Key to our curatorial approach was attempting to explore whether or not that sentiment still holds true, some fifty years after it as so expressed.

The world has changed; it is now a world more inundated than ever before with images real and imagined, a world inhabited by a populace with a visual acumen informed by the pioneering work done by William Eggleston, his peers, and his acolytes.

Even with a supposed reduction in the attention span of the average individual, we suspect that, yet and still, there are more of us than ever pre-disposed to look just that little bit deeper. it is our hope that your greater attention is rewarded with the work now on display.