Amy Dury's solo show Silent Companions opens at the Regency Town House on 21 October

The painter Amy Dury³ has a new solo show, Silent Companions, at the Regency Town House^1,2 in Brunswick Square from Wednesday 21 October. It runs every day until Sunday 1 November, from 11am to 5pm, or by appointment.

Dury has had solo shows in the UK, New York and Berlin. A commission for Hermès put her work along the length of the Champs Elysée in Paris.

She paints figures taken from photographs from before the digital age, often found family photographs and home movies. On her website she says she stops the films “on frames that resonate”, and is most often drawn to “peoples roles in society, the hierarchies and dynamics of power”. She uses oil and acrylic, with charcoal and pencil drawings, and says her background as a printmaker shapes how she builds up layers.

Silent Companions sticks with figures from the recent past. In the Town House’s listing, Dury writes: “Looking back into our recent past is an act of remembering and nostalgic misremembering, with photographs and film becoming the vehicle which constructs stories about ourselves.”

The Town House says the building gave her the scope to make large-scale work for this show.

It is a 15 to 20 minute walk from Brighton and Hove stations. By bus, ask for the top of Brunswick Square in Western Road.