“Shaun McGill formalises and ritualises a visual language, abstracting and releasing empirical details to participate in a broader aesthetic discourse. Underlying this clean aesthetic the urgency of touch remains, holding us close, kissing our attention. What we see are two paintings pale, rendered in clinical blues and greens. It is what the paint doesn’t name that speaks to us….”

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— Steve Lovett, Durham Street West [Men’s Convenience] 2021.