In the exhibition, "Fabels for Future", we will be showing the pictorial cosmos of Christopher Croft.

On first sight his works seem wondrous and enigmatic: Two mice in a world of clockworks and tractors? A curtain decorated with butterflies?

But on closer look, the viewer discovers a message of universal importance: the alarming danger facing mice and other mammals threatened by industrialised agriculture. Attention is also drawn to the extinction of insects, which for at least the last 20 years, has taken on dramatic proportions.

"Fables for Future" is full of current, grave and menacing themes, and yet Croft manages to give them a lyrical, humorous and ironic edge.

You can see this in Croft's series of "Housewife Pictures", which are inspired by the 1970's advertising images for Vileda wipes. Colourful and striking, they promote a tidy and sparkling clean home.

Croft's pop stylisation is a shrewd nod to the industrious use of chemical household products, which may wipe away annoying stains in seconds, but which also have a destructive effect on marine life and natural water systems.  A fact that household consumer's ignore.

Christopher Croft's whimsical works are a mirror of our often ludicrous world.