The strikingly graphic paintings of Caitlin Keogh (b.1982) incorporate an array of fragmented imagery rendered with sharp lines and flat colour, reflecting the American artist’s background in commercial illustration. Her visually rich compositions mix figurative elements with repeating patterns and motifs culled from sources including botanical illustration, William Morris designs, medieval manuscripts, broken statuary and anatomical diagrams, among others. Keogh’s ‘Running Doggerel’ series comprises twelve interconnected paintings designed to be viewed as one large composition, individual units or, as here, smaller series. Its title refers to a crude form of poetry characterised by clumsiness, clichés and irregular meter – a style that Keogh playfully translates into paint through her intuitive, collage-like approach. Her source material encompassed thousands of art postcards, book illustrations, online search results and her own phone photographs. In the resulting paintings, images are layered, intertwined and rhythmically juxtaposed with one another to generate new narratives and meanings.