In collaboration with The Art Gallery, 303 Projects presents It’s Not Over Yet, the first major solo exhibition by London-based artist Duncan McAfee.

McAfee’s ambitious ‘Lowestoft takeover’ asks the audience to travel across town, between 303 Projects, in Kirkley, South Lowestoft, and The Art Gallery in the Historic Old High Street to the North, to experience a comprehensive review of the artist’s recent return to painting, which also coincides with his current placement on the prestigious Turps Banana Off-Site Programme.

Red wine substitute is spattered across the painted surfaces suggesting transubstantiation, intoxication and cartoon violence. Reflecting the uncertainties of our times, the population of cartoonish characters the artist depicts seem manic from overexposure, dissolving in a double-take cacophony of contradictory styles and techniques. They appear constructed from the rubble of twentieth century painting, with elements of its major art historical movements stolen and deformed, forced together in eye-popping new combinations.

McAfee’s images are bloated with contradictions: loud and quiet, irreverent and sincere, humorous and grotesque, accidental and intentional, timid and boisterous, anxious yet joyous and celebratory.