Art involves observation, contemplation, reaction, flow, resistance, time, feeling; all processed by the body, and filtered through a medium. The medium’s filtering produces unexpected results, and the totality of the process is a slow form of thought itself.” Juan Ford

This survey exhibition presents 20 years of Ford’s practice, revealing the key conceptual questions with which he has engaged and which over time have manifested in more complex, refined and mature ways. It is an exhibition that reveals the trajectory of Ford’s thinking, technical virtuosity and visual language. It reveals the new ways Ford has developed to speak with his audience about concerns which have always interested him.

Presented thematically, the exhibition reveals how Ford has been consistently engaged with certain questions throughout his career, evidence of his deep intellectual engagement with ideas and concepts and artistic traditions. The exhibition celebrates one of this country’s most accomplished painters, not solely owing to his technical brilliance but more so because of his commitment to engage with questions that are incredibly contemporary, pressing, and central to who we are, what we might be, and where we are going.