Mitch Cairns: Waylaid S T O O P

It is with great pleasure that The Commercial presents Waylaid S T O O P, a solo exhibition by Mitch Cairns. Cairns’ exhibitions comprise a seemingly unruly or disparate combination of figurative pictorial subjects. A maker of pictures and crafter of oil paint surfaces, Cairns is an artist of notable dexterity leaping between image-ideas. He works language as much as he works paint and glazes (the thin, transparent, medium-rich layers that he wipes across his surfaces to create veils of form and colour). Nimble banter is found throughout his paintings in the construction of compositions where language and fruit are...