
The Tail marks Nick Collerson’s second exhibition at PALAS, bringing together a series of paintings that offer symbolism not as a code to crack, but as a living, shifting language.
In these works, nothing holds for long. A body becomes a shape, a shape slips into light; figures recede as colour, space, or architecture takes their place. Perspectives tilt and loosen, and with them, meaning is deferred, contradicted, and made open.
Collerson paints with a candour that feels both disarming yet precise – guided by a deep trust in the act of painting itself. What unfolds is the quiet complexity of what is at play: a philosophical, ancient game into how we chase images, words and ideas, and how these things elude us.


2025
oil on canvas
152.5 x 137 cm / 60 x 54 in.
Photo: Josh Raymond







2025
oil on canvas
167 x 183 cm / 65 3/4 x 72 in.
Photo: Josh Raymond



2024
oil on canvas
96.5 x 81.7 cm / 38 x 32 1/8 in.
Photo: Josh Raymond

2025
oil on canvas
167.5 x 183 cm / 66 x 72 in.
Photo: Josh Raymond