Gallery 9 is delighted to present Michelle Hanlin's 'New Paintings', on view at the gallery from 14 June to 8 July. We welcome you to join us for the opening reception from 6 - 8pm next Wednesday 14 June. Michelle Hanlin’s new exhibition of paintings signals an improvisational process that lends itself to the content. Compositions worked out on the canvas are given an open interpretation by the interplay of figuration and abstraction echoed in the makeshift forms inhabiting them. The dynamic use of painterly gesture, colour and enigmatic figure/ground relationships illuminate Hanlin’s continuing fascination with geomorphic structures, architectural motifs and weathered sculptural assemblage evoking ruins and abandoned habitations. Hanlin’s addition of monoprints and framed imagery suggests paintings within paintings, multiplying the subject and its boundaries in a balancing act of the concrete and the visionary. In Hanlin’s latest work, the dynamic use of painterly gesture, colour and enigmatic figure/ground relationships illuminate her continuing fascination with geomorphic structures, architectural motifs and weathered sculptural assemblage evoking ruins and abandoned habitations. Hanlin’s addition of monoprints and framed imagery suggests paintings within paintings, multiplying the subject and its boundaries in a balancing act of the concrete and the visionary. MICHELLE HANLIN Castles 2023 acrylic on canvas 137 × 137 cm