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Easton’s paintings and structural installations explore architectural spaces and the urban landscape that exists close to her. She distills these personal places by fragmenting them into tiny sections to then reconstruct using a system of geometry and layering. The new spaces negotiate between the real and the unknown, whilst making connection between image and pattern. The work isolates or abandons reality and the relationship between what may have once seemed ordinary and everyday is given a sense of importance and permanence. The real and familiar becomes bizarre, dreamlike and staged.

Her most recent piece ‘Blind’ is constructed around a grid structure of 168 etchings, forming a landscape which repeats and mirrors. Printed partly in black onto a graphite base and tonally graded into white on white, in this large work the city’s streets resonate with elusive atmospheric qualities. Mysterious and mundane, grimy and ethereal, the landscapes here are both threatening and beautiful, familiar and uncanny.