‘Making Progress’

EXHIBITION BY JO PEEL 2020

One Eleven gallery - Siem Reap

Best known as the gateway to the ancient temples of Angkor, Siem Reap has become a bustling tourist town in it’s own right, a place that has seen fast paced growth in recent years as global migration and tourism take hold.

As the red dust is swept away and the tarmac rolls over to assimilate Siem Reap into a modern attraction, this is a town in transition.

Through these paintings I would like to explore this by looking at the quiet moments that are at odds with the pace of the modern world. Drink carts waiting in the shade, waiting rooms with rows of plastic chairs and fuel poured from an old whisky bottle.

And a little red dust.

Floating Village, 2020