Offcuts

Anh Nguyen’s Offcuts brings together a suite of small-scale paintings that turn a close, attentive eye to what is nearest at hand. Working across still life and interiors, Nguyen begins, as she notes, “with what might otherwise be discarded: offcuts, leftover marks, fleeting glimpses.” A vase of freesias loosens into gesture; a figure half-held within a thicket of green; a child bent over a page, absorbed; a beach or roadside scene glimpsed in passing -each work feels caught mid-thought, as if the image has only just arrived and might just as easily dissolve again.