The Discerning Eye, London 2024

The Mall Galleries, London 15-24 November 2024

I’m very happy to have had 3 paintings selected for The Discerning Eye 2024 at the Mall Galleries, London. For more information about the exhibition and the judges please click here.

‘Emma Alcock’s meditative painting generates its quiet presence through the patient application of veils of paint to form what seem on the one hand like hovering abstractions, on the other possible shorthand for everyday objects. Might ‘Rectangle with Line II’ show a straight vase on one of two table tops in skewed perspective? Even taking it literally, we might wonder what the line is – if the vertical, isn’t that more a slim rectangle? If the horizontal, why isn’t it ‘rectangles’ plural?’

Paul Carey-Kent, Art Critic and Curator