Viewing Laura Gannon

Laura Gannon is having a good year. She’s showing work in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition and at the forthcoming edition of Frieze London in Regent’s Park. She’s also enjoying her second solo show at Kate MacGarry in London.

Installed across the main space of the gallery, the exhibition brings together new painted works on linen, with punctures, apertures and interwoven elements painted in bold, simple inks and acrylic, and a new film titled Glass House, which looks at a modern church on the west coast of Ireland and the relationship of Ireland to modernity and the landscape.

Shown together, they reveal Gannon’s enduring interest in themes of temporality, light and space, as well as the act of mark making itself. Few works will make you actively look — and think — as much as these will. Get yourself to Shoreditch sharpish.