Max Wade

Often working from sketches of his travels and everyday surroundings, Max Wade reduces these sketches to their critical forms and negative space and transforms them into paintings. In this way, Wade's drawings are enlarged, rotated, and distorted, and the motifs are simplified, allowing the works to depict a layered imaginary landscape where plains interchange and motifs darken to become ambiguous. The paintings become as if alive, with a sense of rhythm, physicality, and energy. ...

The gallery brings a range of vibrant artists working within different media to the fore – often showcasing them for the first time and offering emerging artists exposure to an international audience. To date, the gallery has hosted over 60 physical exhibitions, pop-up exhibitions, exhibitions in virtual reality and online. Sid Motion Gallery opened in 2016 in a former betting shop in Kings Cross. In 2019 the gallery relocated to a larger space in South East London. ...