Truth and Lies

Exhibition Runs:

From 20th – 2nd December, 2025 | 11am – 5:30pm
Private View: Thursday 20th November, 6pm – 9pm

Location: ASC Gallery at The Handbag Factory

About

“Truth and Lies” brings together eight artists who through their individual practice respond to how this concept fits with making visual art.

The prevailing zeitgeist seriously challenges our understanding of truth and lying but as artists we ask- has making art always toyed with truth and deception?

Curated by Diane Gerrard and showing painting, photography, sculpture, installation and film this is the sixth exhibition in ASC’s 30th anniversary curating programme and opens November 21st at the Handbag Factory.

Please contact the artists directly if you are interested in purchasing any of the artworks.

Artists

Gabriella Hall

Gabriella works in layers, like sedimented memories, uncovering  shadows and subtle details. Using mixed media, she observes  everyday patterns and shapes, assembling a loose visual diary of  seemingly insignificant moments and exploring how repetition and  context shift the meaning of images, capturing fragments of daily  experience. 

Diane Gerrard

Decay, loss and disintegration are a starting point for Diane;  work is filtered through a little imagination, making images that stir  memories. 

Fiona Masterton

In your imagination, these little glimpses are like Joseph Cornell’s  box installations, capturing and enclosing dreams and desires. You  are taken to Morocco, to Paris, to Japan and the Pacific Islands.  You are visiting Chinatown with lanterns, lights and jasmine tea  poured into tiny cups as the carp swim in the pond under the little  red bridge at the Imperial China restaurant in Lisle Street, London. 

Rachel Pearcey

As a protest against the apparent inescapable rise of inequality,  environmental degradation and misogyny Rachel has taken to  stitching words to ‘voice’ her frustration, to counter her sense of  powerlessness. In spite of the seriousness of the subjects her work  is often ‘humorous’. 

Paul Smith

Paul’s work explores what is lost from memory and how that loss is synthesized as trace in the landscape. Recent paintings have used the explorations of localities on the verge of returning to unofficial wilderness in dialogue with found material.

Ann Hulland

Each art work is a visual truth made up of perception, emotion and idea . Ann enjoys the relationships that develop and deepen between the formal elements of a work and the concept or process of realising each one. Truth and Lies, hand in hand.

Valerie Merlo

Valerie’s work is a hybrid of ideas and material exploring  narrative, simple or complex, to result in a sculpture language of  forms and shapes. Her drawing practice is important to explore,  execute ideas in a format that complements sculptures, all  conflated in a flux or ideas to create a place of other possibilities. 

Paul Scully

As a veteran flaneur with a ‘good eye’, Paul encounters everyday moments full of mystery – the rhythms of light, shadow, wind, rain – and reveals the music of chance, the marvellous within the mundane.

  • Email: paolo.scully@gmail.com

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