Arthall is inviting the public to its next opening night – Abstract Gozo – by Jamie F. on Friday, the 13th of May at 7.30pm. This exhibition is a celebration of the underlying mystery that is the soul of the island of Gozo.

Abstract Gozo is lenswork by English artist, Jamie F, who maps the Gozitan coast with the eyes of a painter combined with the sharp focus of a traditional camera work.

The gallery explained that he brings to light the quality behind the ordinary, uncovering the curves and angles of pre-cognitive experience.

Jamie F, who is from Newcastle, England, said that he retreated to the island of Gozo, where he “rediscovered his oeuvre after many barren years in the wilderness.”

Gozo provides him with the vital tranquillity which allows access to the deep seated beauty inherent in the world, the artist said.

Jamie F. writes:

“On A Spinning Rock Even Stop Never Stops

Artists are the archaeologists of the future tense

extracting meaning from the very edges of reality

art is an existential struggle

with that pernicious conformity

which bears the hallmarks of control

all artists are to be

theorised into submission

if they resist they are to be

excommunicated and ignored

aesthetic expression versus

false-arts

reductio ad absurdum

for those who cannot do

teach.

No Thing is True Every Thing is Permissible.”

The exhibition runs until the 12th of June. Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday from 10-13 and 17-19; Sunday from 10-12, at Arthall – 8, triq Agius de Soldanis, Victoria, Gozo.

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