Sophie Ives blurs a boundary between drawing and painting. In her work, which is rooted in and yet subverts traditions of portraiture and figurative art more broadly, the brush (or other end of) scrapes remaining pigment from oil sticks and dances across surfaces, leaving traces of catharsis. In these works, movement and disorder are handled with immediacy, bringing action and instinct to the fore - and these instinctive figures are symbols of bodily experience, whether dancing, making love, or otherwise being. Her collages and other paintings on board, which represent developments in her practice, are fierce: these figures are self-conscious and conscious of you too - at times, they can seem to be swearing at the viewer.