Dorothy Cross @ New Art Centre, Salisbury

Dorothy Cross makes both discrete objects and large-scale works and she is well-known for using diverse media, from found and constructed items to opera, photographs and film. For this exhibition, her focus is a series of substantial new sculptures, including a large bed carved in Carrara marble. Glance, the title of the exhibition, suggests both the visual and the physical: a look that can change vision or a touch that shifts one’s trajectory, which can be fleeting and tentative, but at times have powerful consequences. This duality demonstrates Cross’ interest in subtlety and nuance and is entirely appropriate for an artist whose use of language actively resists reductive circumscription.