Glade is a solo exhibition of new works by Thom Trojanowski that speaks to the solemn and fantastical heart of wintertime. Featuring a series of bold and expressive paintings centred by a large-scale ceramic installation, Trojanowski employs his signature style of acidic and enigmatic landscapes to evoke the icy mood of winter: the cold and dampened spirit of darker days, the harsh and austere means by which we must always go on.
Imagined through the architecture of a glade – a large clearing or open area within a forest – the exhibition presents us with a psychological and expansive space, filled with a visual language of graphic forms and motifs that effortlessly fuse spontaneity and lightness with physicality, scale and material intuition. Captured as if one’s eyes were caught with frostbite, Glade nevertheless presents us with the daydreaming, the bright and unabating desire we have to reconnect with the outside - to the richness and magic of the ecological world around us.
