“I see this exhibition only through Williams’s transmogrifying documentation. Warm tungsten light illuminates one room, warped in the reflection of Piggott’s mirror work and filled with the luxuriously varied textures of Johnston’s collection. There is an angled chair with an embroidered chartreuse velvet cushion, wicker weft, and glossily oiled wooden arms; a pinstriped yellow wallpaper, lines wavering; and an eighteenth-century society portrait of a young woman in a satiny blue-and-white gown fingering a small bunch of roses, her face obscured by a stretch of thin white fabric draped over the top of the picture frame like a veil. In these photographs, the accoutrements of an aristocratic past are transported to a psychologically mysterious shadow realm.” – Cameron Hurst, 2024
Rosslynd Piggott and Rudi Williams’ two-person exhibition Mirror, mirror at Sutton Gallery has been reviewed in this week’s Memo Review.