unit 4 studio

SOMA - painting from the savage mind

private view Friday 6th June

An exhibition of paintings by Alex Crocker, Laurence Owen, Matthew Curtis and Adam Crosland.

This group of young artists all attended Stroud art college around the turn of the century. Now they return to Stroud with a selection of new and exciting paintings in an exhibition entitled Soma – painting from the savage mind. The title for the show is inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World. Soma is the wonder drug of the future that the government prescribes to its citizens to keep them in a constant state of bliss. The savage is a character born outside the realms of state control and becomes the seed of dissent in this dystopian image of the future.