You've probably seen Katy Simpson's work already without realising it. The image on the left is one of a series of illustrations she made for RTE's States of Fear. Now her paintings form the inaugural exhibition at a new gallery within a gallery, the Semple at the Oisin Gallery on Westland Row from Thursday next. Her work looked immediately impressive in the 1998 NCAD graduation show. Composite, fragmentary views of anonymous domestic spaces, crisply rendered, engendered a mood of unspecified unease. "My work holds a narrative that resists the finality of closure . . ." she said in a statement at the time. Her empty but strangely evocative images evoke "the potency of the invisible, the hidden and its delayed promise of revelation".
