Thomas Dillon: The Raw and the Cooked

This is Dillon’s first solo exhibition in Dubai; and it is claimed to be a milestone in the artist’s career, featuring a body of work conceived and created specifically for this show.

In Claude Lévi-Strauss’s influential text of the same name, the author identified binary oppositions – nature and culture, raw and cooked – as fundamental tools by which societies organise meaning. For Dillon, it is more than a reference; it offers a conceptual lens through which his paintings may be read – Dillon feels he is testing the limits of painting as a medium that can bridge instinct and intellect, gesture and structure, matter and form. As the gallery puts it, “Dillon’s works remind us that art continues to operate like myth: as a space where chaos is given form, where the elemental becomes symbolic, and where human thought – raw and cooked alike – finds its most resonant expression”.

To 17 November.

Above: Thomas Dillon, Hawkeye (2025, detail)