23/08/2026
Simon Linington
Night thoughts, 2026
Pigment in a glass tube with an acrylic bracket
100 x 2.6 cm
39 3/8 x 1 in
An array of slender glass rods, each sealed and filled with pigments, mixed by Linington and inspired by the many different hues of sand found at Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight. The wall-mounted tubes are held in vertical formation, with the cool exactitude of a scientific study. Elegant and slightly uncanny, the forms have something that has been extracted from a landscape and carefully preserved. Sand, of course, is the slow product of stone worn by water over millennia. It represents the substance that more than any other defines the edge where land meets sea. Linington mixes his pigments by hand, building a colour field that captures differing hues of the Isle of Wight. The faded brightness of the British seaside, a once vivid place now melancholic and softened by sun and salt. His interest, he says, lies in the mirage of home and the shimmer of something just out of reach. Sofia Hallström
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