Fork in the Road, oil on canvas, 140 x 100cm
(The Artist’s Room)
There is a strange sensation known to anyone who revisits somewhere they once lived — a feeling that things are exactly the same yet completely different. One becomes an outsider in the familiar.
This feeling pervades Sam Foley’s latest exhibition at The Artist’s Room. As the artist marks the 21st anniversary of his first (Dunedin) solo show, he returns to Dunedin’s Town Belt, which he calls the "green belt", to depict and contrast, seek the familiar, and welcome the changes with nostalgia and revelation.