Using clever digital tricks, Ryuta Amae creates what he describes as “virtual memories”. His sources of inspiration are myriad: vast imaginary landscapes which he draws in black lead, and banal images drawn from everyday life, which he modifies in extraordinary ways. The first work in a new series, maternity, which he is presenting here, is based on a real photo which he interprets in order to produce a scene with religious connotations. As always with Amae, there is a gap bet…

"...and some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher..." Captain Ahab from Moby Dick by Herman Melville It is impossible to categorise or define the work of this mercurial British artist, and this is one of the properties of his work which John Isaacs consciously perpetrates, as if trying to conceal in a hall of mirrors the trail that leads back to himself. Isaacs produces such a wide range of work that …