They say size isn’t everything…. But artist and curator Nickola McCoy-Snell thinks her latest exhibition is the biggest the country has every seen.

Changes is the name of an art show opening on Thursday evening upstairs at Woods Furniture store.

Ms McCoy-Snell said: “It’s an abstract and contemporary art exhibition and features 13 local artists. The show’s theme centres around ‘changes,’ as its name suggests – whether it’s physical changes, spiritual changes or mood changes. We are exhibiting in 4,400 square feet, which makes it the largest exhibition space ever curated on Island.”

There are some works by artists who haven’t exhibited on such a large scale before, such as a bold new series of large paintings by local art teacher Lorna Reid. In the new exhibition Ms. Reid uses a full spectrum of colour to explore the world between figurative and abstract art. In her paintings silhouettes of the human form can be seen intertwined with flat, abstract blocks of colour.

“We’ve also got someone who’s new on the photography and fine art scene, Amar Sheow,” said Ms. McCoy-Snell.

Mr. Sheow, an experienced photographer, uses digital manipulation techniques to take his photographs into abstraction, creating a unique world of colour, form and texture. Changes will also feature exquisite batik work by Robert McKendrick who is already well known here for unusual and imaginative work in a variety of media.

Avril Ward, another well-established artist, includes a series of pastoral landscapes and semi-abstract paintings using bright acrylic paints.

Scott Swing’s work includes a series of fiberglass sculptures finished with metallic paint, cast from parts of human beings.

Silvery forms emerge from oblong frames or out of a bright red wall. Mr. Swing’s work also uses human figures cast in concrete, using coloured-glass aggregate.

Changes also features work by Gordon Solomon, Al Ebanks, Steven Joscelyn, David Bridgeman, Renate Seffer, Randy Chollette and Nasaria Suckoo-Chollette, as well as paintings by the show’s Curator, Nickola, McCoy-Snell, whose paint-splatter-on-canvas work, “Wired”, offers a fascinating 21st Century conceptual counterpoint to the work of the late Jackson Pollock.

(Photos by: Christoper Tobutt)

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