Brooke Benington is pleased to present The Ruinette, an exhibition of paintings by Ross Taylor. Set within the strange spoil of botched national infrastructure projects and the ruinous gateposts of great houses, Taylor appears to subject his most recent works to an advancing state of irreverent progress. A type of foreshadowing, that sees a cast of characters fending off the usual tide of shit flats, foaming earthworks and the never-ending transfer of land and lease.
The exhibitions title, The Ruinette, serves as a counter point. A device in which to probe the condition of our surroundings and the effect they have on the architecture of our physical and social selves. Convinced of its validity, the artist locates the presence of something stirring in our streets, a type of suburban Demiurge which haunts and garbles the great and endless theatre of where people live.
