“As I stood in the studio, watching as these works were carried back and forth and laid out around me, the difference between the back and the front transfixed me.  These weren’t backs and fronts but interiors and exteriors, these sculptural-paintings, or painted sculptures, were all about insides and outsides.  Joseph Beuys commanded us all “Show your wound” and proclaimed his first exhibition to be a performance involving himself and his mother, his birth was the ‘Exhibition of a wound’.  Well these new paintings of Dillwyn Smith might be an exhibition of multiple wounds, which needed many, many stitches to heal them.”

 

Quote from The space of terror and healing – beautiful Imbunches for a troubled time.

Professor Marcus Wood 2009