LAITH MCGREGOR
Ain't no Sunshine
10 September – 11 October 2025

STATION | SYDNEY

STATION is delighted to present Ain’t no Sunshine, a solo exhibition by Laith McGregor.

Working across meticulous drawing, cast-off studio remnants, and hand-built forms, McGregor crafts a quiet meditation on time, memory, and the fragility of the natural world. In this new body of work, the still life is re-imagined, not as a static arrangement, but as a living, breathing metaphor for the human condition. Clay vessels cradle wilting flora, pencil shavings are entombed like relics, and symbolic figures drift through graphite landscapes, each caught in varying states of reflection and disconnection.

At the heart of the exhibition is Always, a large-scale graphite on canvas depicting three enigmatic figures suspended within a fractured, ambiguous landscape. As with the still life genre itself, McGregor’s practice invites close observation, quiet tension, and unanswered questions.

Ain’t no Sunshine is both a celebration of life and a lament for what’s been lost, a meditation on what it means to be arranged, observed, and perhaps, transformed.

There is tenderness here, and unease, a lingering sense of epilogue. The exhibition reflects on what remains when the noise fades: the rituals of making, the residue of practice, and the quiet poetry found in what is left behind.

 

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Installation Views

Artworks

Laith McGregor
Still Life 2025
pencil on paper
154.0 × 121.0 cm (framed)

Laith McGregor
History I 2025
graphite, wood
33.0 × 27.0 cm

Laith McGregor
Shavings 25 2025
pencil shavings, wood
33.0 × 27.0 cm

Laith McGregor
Still Life Vessel IV (Portrait) 2025
clay, enamel and cue balls, wall sculpture
24.0 × 18.0 × 17.0 cm

Laith McGregor
Still Life Vessel III (Wall Flower) 2025
clay, enamel wall sculpture
24.0 × 18.0 × 17.0 cm

Laith McGregor
After Life 2025
clay enamel, cigarette wall sculpture
24.0 × 21.0 × 13.0 cm

Laith McGregor
Still Life (After Picasso) 2025
pencil on paper
46.5 × 36.5 cm (framed)

Laith McGregor
Still Life (After Pablo) 2025
pencil on paper
46.5 × 36.5 cm (framed)

Laith McGregor
Still Life (After Braque) 2025
pencil on paper
46.5 × 36.5 cm (framed)

Laith McGregor
Ends End Beginning 2025
pencils, graphite, wood
25.5 × 13.3 × 5.5 cm

Laith McGregor
Ends End 2025
pencils, graphite, wood
26.0 × 13.8 × 5.5 cm

Laith McGregor
Ends End II 2025
pencils, graphite, wood
25.5 × 13.5 × 5.5 cm

Laith McGregor
Always 2025
pencil, synthetic polymer on canvas
214.0 × 495.0 cm

Laith McGregor
Still Life Vessel I (Earrings) 2025
clay, enamel
28.5 × 23.0 × 21.0

Laith McGregor
Still Life Vessel II (Pregnant) 2025
clay, enamel
31.5 × 28.0 × 20.0 cm

Laith McGregor
Eyes, Moons, Bubbles, Balls 2025
cue balls mounted on wall