12th – 15th March & 18th – 21st March, 1pm – 6pm
Coningsby Gallery
Christopher Dennistoun creates portals, vivid constructions of painted wood, bark, metal, and other useful materials. They are colourful, deliberate, and open to change. Each portal can be hung at different angles. There is no correct top or bottom. Every shift in position changes the composition and the way it feels and what it seems to propose. In this instability lies the work’s invitation, to imagine something new each time it appears.
There is a sense of play in Dennistoun’s work. Edges meet at slightly odd angles, and colour sometimes slips beyond its boundary. Some portals lean, some stretch, and some seem to wink at the idea of symmetry. They carry the marks of touch and adjustment, the pleasure of building, balancing, and letting things almost fall apart.
Out of this playful tension, the smaller sculptures emerge. They seem to have drifted from the portals, carrying their colours and proportions into freer forms. Some recall flowers, flags, spinning wheels, or fragments of machines, objects that extend the logic of the portal into three dimensions. They give physical shape to the same questions about balance and openness, as if the idea of framing had stepped off the wall to see what else it might become.
Dennistoun’s art moves between structure and release, philosophy and touch. His portals remain calm and deliberate. The smaller pieces unfold their echoes. Together, they create a space where imagination completes what form only begins.