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Nancy Toomey Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Matthew Picton titled A Seeker’s Paradise on view from February 1 to March 16, 2024. Read more about this exhibition here.

Defined as “The lapse of humankind into a state of sin ascribed in traditional Jewish and Christian theology to the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis” Throughout history many civilizations and individuals have experienced a seeming and often sudden fall from grace. From the very beginnings

Every living person has to confront the inevitability of their own death and those of others close to them. Art and artists have always engaged with the subject of mortality as a means to giving expression to the feelings and fears aroused by thoughts of the end of life. The

“Cities bring together culture and ideas, convert human power in to form, energy in to civilization, they are like brains directing and developing civilized life” Joel Kotkin The organism of the city is that of a distinct entity that has been shaped by social, political, economic and topographic factors. Many

  Cities are often described as living organisms; viewed as subject rather than object. Matthew Picton engages with this tradition of humanising the city by deconstructing the clean, uncompromising aesthetic of the cartographic city plan and imbuing it with the unique history and culture of each place. In London 1940

“Cities bring together culture and ideas, convert human power in to form, energy in to civilization, they are like brains directing and developing civilized life” –Joel Kotkin. The organism of a city is a distinct entity that has been shaped by social, political, economic and topographic factors and is illustrative

An Urban History Postwar Landscape refers to the political landscape of the late 20th Century, a landscape that reflects the settlement reached at the end of the second world war.  This exhibition looks at the way in which this landscape has been manifested in the urban structures of the cities