James Freeman Gallery

We are pleased to present The Unseen, an exhibition of works by Douglas McDougall and Simone Pellegrini, two artists who use their work to give form to hidden experiences and ideas.

Douglas McDougall brings beings into existence using little more than pulp and burnt wood. He works with charcoal on paper to create portraits of outsiders, those who exist without or despite the system. Some seem familiar, faces peeking out from the soft aperture of a balaclava as if this were a portal through which they perceived the world, and via which they too can be glimpsed and understood...