Piers Inkpen is a Southampton-based draughtsman, painter and printmaker. His work is incredibly intimate, both in scale and in subject matter. His images, no larger than a person’s palm, depict a sensitive internal world populated by ghosts. Throughout his work, solitary figures can be seen standing, walking, or swimming within empty spaces and landscapes, puzzled by something they can’t quite fathom. These miniature tableaus are not quite dreams, and yet they have been dreamt; they are not quite memories, and yet they have happened. Piers considers his work fundamentally conflicted: although his work is mournful, seeking some kind of peace, there also exists within it a hidden reservation, an opposing, melancholy wish to keep his ghosts ‘alive’.

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