Fergal Stapleton

‘This is an exhibition of paintings of interior twilights, ash atmospherics, hope expressed in loose change, woozy surface mix-ups, semi-curious squints at uncertain shapes and irrelevant light- sources. They are tunnel-visioned illuminations of the things that really matter, such as whether you’ve got that balled up note on you, what that thing in the corner reminds you of, or what’s really being celebrated when a strip of tinsel from eight Christmases ago is hanging off the ceiling. Within these dim booze purgatories are glinty pound-shop treasures that may relate to the Original Egg or some hallucinated Koh-i-noor of an anchorless imagination. The reliefs and the constructions want to break away from all this into the Shangri-la of pure abstraction, but snag on the realities of 33rpm, Styrofoam pizza inserts, raw wattage, and factual acreages of kitchen gloss.’

— Fergal Stapleton

Fergal Stapleton graduated from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1990 and completed the MA Goldsmiths in 1993. He lives and works in London and this is his second exhibition at Counter.