The Soft Parade

Whether by gesture, colour, line, tone or title, artists have been getting us to look at art by luring us with the beauty of the surface. This exhibition asks us to assume nothing about the surface and invites to you in to interpret softness with less fuzzy lenses than our senses.

Soft images are beautiful and our perception of softness is linked to our experiences of what ‘soft’ might imply. By taking a hard look beyond what might appear sensual and soft, we can often find turbulence just beneath the surface that reveals another layer to a complicated story.