Caragh Thuring 19 Nov 2010 - 8 Jan 2011 11 Duke Street, St James's

The Directors of Thomas Dane Gallery are pleased to announce Caragh Thuring's second solo show at the gallery.

Painting remains at the centre of Thuring's work; from the formal challenges it proposes and the weight of its history through to its academic classification into genres.

Thuring's work is always multi-faceted, surprising and often contradictory. Her new exhibition further establishes this approach, whilst continuing to open up new ideas and directions. Almost monochromatic black paintings have appeared, and perhaps more strikingly, the recognizable outline of a human being in MAN, 2010.

In his essay 'Spacing Spaces', which accompanies a new catalogue of Thuring's work, Bart van der Heide touches upon this surprising addition. "To find a human figure in the work of Thuring is remarkable. Her painting, drawings and etchings mostly depict fragmented quotations of architecture, industrial landmarks and painting's history. It is in the later in which one might identify a human presence, but none are depicted as the 'man' in MAN. They remain representations of works by famous masters such as Titian or Johannes Vermeer. Thuring's rendering of a single human figure, depicted in this particular gestural and ambiguous manner, is a new development."

The use of un-primed linen remains prominent in Thuring's work. Treating the canvas as an open, virginal field, she depicts her subjects through what she chooses to dissect, obscure or omit. Van der Heide again notes, "Thuring is more interested in what she can leave out, than what she might include."

Caragh Thuring was born in Brussels in 1972. She lives and works in London and is currently included the group exhibition 'Newspeak: British Art Now, Part Two' at the Saatchi Gallery, London.

A 32-pages catalogue, 'Caragh Thuring, Paintings 2005-2010', has been published to coincide with the exhibition.