An Elizabethan Devil Worshipper's Prayer Book - Exhibition

An Elizabethan Devil Worshipper’s Prayer Book is an exhibition of recent paintings by Nick Harte.

Heaven is nearly always one single colour, or at best iridescent; harmonious, or in any case, without discord; monotonous, and thus potentially boring. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunter’s caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. The nights of medieval Europe abounded with spectral processions, flowering branches, shaken, casting violet flames into dawn light. Cloister bells rung dreamlike and far, transgrounded by the void. They could see the cables pass by like snakes inside the black metal cage, on all sides the forest encircling them like a stifling cloak. Under the thick branches floated a vague green twilight that had all the immobility of stagnant water. A motionless pendulum for a sign of the Zodiac. Lifeless in their dead calm, crow’s wings and claws by clever stratagems marched everywhere in uniform gloom. No colour, only drab shades of grey from black to the ultimate dead white of the snow. Nights without night, enthroning the beheaded. A cadaver of useless hermeticism, head opened, which would give up its secret on the executioner’s block. There was a devil that slipped, immaculate wings carried him in: Gilles de Rais finally came to the conclusion that the magicians were correct, that no new discovery was possible without the aid of Satan. Let not the last star go out, the star of the weary. Night, swift as the boomerang carved of our bones, and whistling, whistling… Hell is nearly always varied, spectacular, paroxysmic, and individualised.

Opening from 5:30-7pm on Tuesday, July 28th. Drinks and nibbles will be provided. Exhibition then open daily from 3-5pm, finishing on Friday July 31st.