Frame Play | Charles Mayton

In Frame Play, Charles Mayton activates various readings of the word ‘frame’ with two distinct elements. The first is an illustration that he found, unceremoniously photographed, and tacked to his studio wall in 2017. The drawing depicts a domestic scene in which a dog, positioned with its back to the viewer, appears to be pawing towards an ornately framed still life of fruit. Mayton’s finding of this illustration coincided with the discovery of a pair of discarded canvases, which he then reassembled into a schematic wall construction, mimicking a perspectival interior akin to his studio space. This schematic form appears throughout many of Mayton’s earlier works, both as a motif and a way of marking the space within painting itself as a site of performative exchange. It is Mayton’s engagement with these found materials that has generated the two bodies of work in this exhibition: interior drifts and frame play.

Gallery Hours
February 8 - April 6, 2025
Friday - Sunday 12-5pm
Free

Image: Charles Mayton, interior drifts i, 2024 inkjet print and acrylic on canvas, H 19 x W 30 inches