Rook & Raven and Evelyn Yard Contemporary are pleased to present Nothing is Sacred and The Queen of the Sea – two polarizing bodies of work from artist Paul Fryer, spanning both gallery spaces and meant as divergent entities in parallel environments.

In these exhibitions Fryer addresses the nature of suffering, the origins of mankind, the simultaneously impermanent and immutable face of nature, the presence of an often denied but indefatigable human spirit and the question of what the ineffable is really saying to us.

Nothing is Sacred features a collection of elegant and other-worldly sculptures and objects, suggestive of surrealist forms or perhaps undiscovered life forms, at the same time natural and outlandish. Situated in the main gallery space at Rook & Raven, the room is both remote and calming: a gentle and perhaps uncharacteristically minimal evocation of a meditation on the impermanence of time, life and the nature of truth as silence.

Concurrently, Rook & Raven’s sister gallery, Evelyn Yard Contemporary, will feature The Queen of the Sea – a figurative and profoundly challenging installation centering around the distant and acutest origins of humankind and the terrible suffering of helpless individuals.

Paul Fryer is a Visual Artist living and working in London. He has made works using materials as diverse as wax, human hair, vacuum equipment and raw electricity discharged through the air as lightning. Perhaps best known for the works Pieta (The Empire Never Ended) 2007 a waxwork of a diminutive Jesus Christ seated in the electric chair, Evening Star (2006), a particle accelerator which generates a real star at 10,000,000 degrees centigrade contained precariously in a bell jar or Time We Left This World Today (2008) a full size recreation of the V2 rocket in maple wood. Fryer is not an artist who defined by his medium. His works feature in some of the greatest collections of contemporary art in the world.

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