Fragments is a new exhibition in The Orangery at Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden, curated by Alexander Massouras. The exhibition brings together works by six artists, Robbie Fife, Jeff Lowe, Alexander Massouras, Henry Moore, Austin Wright and Emily Young. Each piece resonated with Massouras as he was exploring the theme of fragmentation.
'Fragments are the most enigmatic of forms. They are often associated with ruins, where whatever remains is a clue to something larger but fundamentally unknowable. But they can also have the quality of building blocks, elements which will combine into something complete, just not yet. Certain types of drawing have this quality, when sketches fill a page with different iterations of a larger idea, and especially when the drawing is made by a sculptor, who is just showing one facet of a three-dimensional object. My resin Oil Paintings preserve fregments of oil paint which are scraped from the palette after they have dried. They are part of the process of other paintings, since the colours were mixed for an entirely different purpose, so they point outside themselves and to a past event or gesture. But visually they also seem to me to be loaded with the future, like cells growing under a microscope.'
