The Pump House Gallery is an ideal setting for Glenn Sorensen's uniformly small oil-on-board paintings. Deep into Battersea Park and off the gallery trail, this exhibition demands a mini pilgrimage. Sorensen paints his immediate environment, such as the profile of a friend's face or the wilting of a flower's petal. His approach is to isolate these details against monochrome backgrounds and narrow the chromatic range to an almost grisaille effect. The handling of the paint has a kind of soberness that adds to the pervasive melancholy. Sorensen's real subject is time, or more specifically, slowness. Sorensen talks a lot about painting's connection to memory, and anecdotal titles of works such as The Invitation and Submission invite these personal narratives. The title of the exhibition (The Sugar Cane Allegory) alludes to his childhood memories, growing up in Australia and the seasonal harvesting of sugar cane and its allusions to the passing of time. The slowness in Sorenen's work stands in contrast to the constant chatter of information that serves as a backdrop to our lives. Their resolute interest in the everyday may not be funding friendly and with the announcement of the Pump House Gallery re-branding in December these issues are quietly pertinent.

NB: runs till 01/08.