REFRACTIONS: Beyond What Meets the I is an exhibition of new works, shedding light on how both artists have developed their process and practice over the years to encapsulate themselves, but also their surrounding creative communities. Through very different lenses, both Jaffar Aly and Sam Wootton continue to reveal and evoke feelings of a person far beyond what the eyes can see and determine.
This exhibition seeks to reveal two artists’ deep reflection and representations of people’s internal lives, monologues and (self-) interventions. With the eyes as a window to the soul, both Jaffar Aly + Sam Wootton, though opposing aesthetic and technical practices, have been able to interpret people intensely and vividly through paint as a chosen medium. These artists are sitting at the front of what it means to reimagine themselves and others through a