Gerard Sendey was born in 1928 and comes from Bégles, near Bordeaux in southwest France. Employed all his professional life as a civil servant in the French administration, Sendey worked intensely in private on drawings that quickly became his principal preoccupation. Over the last 30 years, he has created an extremely rich and powerful body of work that can now be found in important public and private collections, both in Europe and America. His drawings of men, women, dogs, birds and mythological animals evoke a strange archetypal world on the borders of the conscious mind, where beings meet, merge and transform one another. Sendrey approaches the creation of these images in an extremely disciplined, rigorous way which enables him to enter a state of attention that leads beyond habitual perceptions. His intention, he says, is to track the unknown, lying in wait for an image to well up from the page to surprise him. When this occurs, Sendrey refuses to judge the value of the images that arise, preferring simply to acknowledge that they are traces left over from the attempt to get closer to the mysteries of consciousness and experience. He works in blocks, producing series of drawings that share similar characteristics. For this exhibition, we have chosen a small number of works from three distinct series completed in 1998.