Nostromo: Scenes from the Raft and Other Stories

Visual artist, Paul Reid, presents a new collection of paintings inspired by The Raft of the Medusa (1818–1819), a monumental oil painting by French Romantic painter Théodore Géricault. 

Taking the form of a re-imagined series of edits, as though the narrative of the painting were told as film, Reid presents a fragmented series of details which document different aspects of the story, from the intimate and human, to the colonial historical context. 

The work will explore class, colonialism and the plight of ordinary people caught between these forces in a world where truth is elusive, beauty is transient and technology both creates and destroys.