In his latest exhibition, The Imaginarium, Peter Alwast presents a series of paintings that continue his exploration of social abstraction. Created between 2022 and 2024, these works engage with interconnected themes of communal fragmentation and the influence of technology on the eerie landscape. Each painting in the exhibition is developed through a meticulous process over many months, intertwining improvisation, structure, imagery and abstraction in layered fields of luminous colour. With an openness to the unpredictable, the works in the exhibition oscillate between beauty, dread, and loss, capturing the intricate emotional terrain of the contemporary moment. Engaging with a language that is both painterly and conceptual, Alwast positions his work within broader dialogues about the role contemporary painting can play as a repository of complex and contradictory information. The works in the exhibition function as material surfaces of conversion, drawing on various historic styles of painting while simultaneously mirroring contemporary anxieties and speculative thresholds for imagining new possibilities of meaning. We welcome you to join us in the gallery and meet the artist for the opening reception on Saturday 30 November from 2–4pm at Gallery 9. Pictured: Peter Alwast, Electric Eel Farm, 2024, oil and oil stick on linen, 175 x 144 cm