Things fall apart

These paintings seem brilliantly oppositional and polarised. The artist, Caragh Thuring, depicts a world of untidy collapse but also, at the same time, one of minutely ordered, elegant design (Thuring references architectural plans by Corbusier within her work, and compositional schemes taken from old Dutch painting - so it's not surprising that there's some design elegance going on). The mystery is what are the oppositional forces that Thuring is summoning? The figurative and the abstract? Happiness and sadness? At a guess, it's something along the lines of messy emotions and dry intellect - each represented by, respectively, disordered paint and highly schematic drawing.

Neal Brown