image: Song X series (unnumbered)

The Edge of Forever 

Emma McNally, Alison Turnbull

13 June—6 September 2025

Large Glass, London

392 Caledonian Road, London N1 1DN

Emma McNally’s meticulous drawings suggest maps or charts of things as complex and various as seas, the night sky, military bases, computer circuit boards, flight paths. "For me drawing is a rhythmic material sounding of inseparability. The Song X series is staying with the trouble of the edge, the border: an attempt at a dynamic reformulation. Maybe forever (always, all ways) abides in the scrambling of the idea of the edge, which is to say, in borderlessness, inseparability, indeterminacy, entanglement, rhythm, deep field."

Alison Turnbull's painting series 'eXtreme Deep Field' derives from a composite astronomical image made using the Hubble Space Telescope, eXtreme Deep Field. For Turnbull the Hubble image, has a strong relationship with painting: "It’s a picture of time that is very densely constructed; if you looked out through a telescope you would never actually see this, and it moves photography far beyond the question of analogue or digital… Here the notion of the 'onement' of painting is set against the infinity of the image."