The show includes Adams’ paintings, textiles, ceramics and mixed-media objects, drawings and visual diaries that emerge from her experiences in the contemporary dating world. This is juxtaposed against a selection of Tucker’s drawings and paintings from the Gallery’s Collection, produced between 1943 and 1989.

A surprising pairing at first glance, both artists are intimately connected in their use of highly-personalised and charged versions of expressionism as the vehicle for their struggle with feeling connections and misconnections between people; the blurring of the private and public self; carnal and romantic desires and their constant frustration; and gender roles.

Image credit - Carla Adams 
Lovely – Weird 2019
pencil and goauche on paper
52.5 x 42.5 cm
© Carla Adams