Chris Packer exhibited a series of paintings titled 'The Planes' for Factory 49 in February in what's known as the 'Office Space'; for the same duration, I exhibited a new project in the 'Showroom'. The paintings were white canvases with cotton tape arranged geometrically across them; the cotton tape was white on the outside, but coloured on the underside. As a result, the white canvases were illuminated by the reflection of colour from the underside of tape in a very alluring way. In the catalogue available at the gallery, Packer comments:

In the present work, the cotton tape acts as ground and curtain, at once carrying and hiding the painting.

What struck me most with Packer's exhibition was the way he utilised a small space with comparatively quite large paintings that were compositionally connected. Speaking of this aspect of his work on his website, Packer writes:

Where you might ordinarily create a series which you then cull to make a cohesive offering, this show proceeded from a design based on the shape of the space, then isolated parts of the whole to produce independent 'easel paintings'.

It was a delight to exhibit alongside Packer and I look forward to seeing more of his work in the future.