Sending shockwaves of subject matter into the room, eX de Medici’s Beautiful Wickedness exhibition of exquisite detailed work is magnificently complex. Carefree and bold, Michael Zavros’ The Favourite takes us from graduation to the stand-out commission of the exhibition Drowned Mercedes, 2023.
Meticulous painters, both artists are working at the intersection between what is seen and what is perceived, with a photo realist quality to their work that each subverts to deliver the unreal. For each there is the truism of the arts, that you have to know the rules before you can break them. And break them they do,