If 'metanoia' means to change one's mind, Tucker and Harrop-Griffith's work is an expression of that moment of change. This exhibition brings together two artists whose practices move fluidly between digital and physical spaces, examining how art is rendered, translated, and transformed across mediums. The works on view interrogate how digital aesthetics and processes shape not only their own, but the viewer's perception of material reality, and how the act of making itself becomes a negotiation – a moment of metanoia – between virtual and tangible forms.
Ajani Tucker
Ajani Tucker is a Graphic Designer and 3D Artist based in Bermuda. His work lives at the intersection of digital art and animation, with a style that's contemporary, abstract, and deeply rooted in optical play. Whether it's on screen or in print, he aims to create pieces that feel like they're in motion—alive with energy, colour, and illusion. While formally trained in graphic design, his journey into 3D and animation has been entirely self-taught. That hands-on experimentation has shaped a practice that leans into bright, bold palettes and unexpected forms. He is not driven by a single inspiration, but he has always been drawn to the vibrancy of colour and the way it can transform a visual experience. Over the past four years, he has exhibited locally and internationally, including being selected for the Charman Prize Exhibition with an AR art piece as well as being exhibited at The Loren Hotel in Austin Texas.
Charles Harrop-Griffiths
Charles Harrop-Griffiths is a London born British Mixed Media artist. His work balances on the edge of a physical and digital art process in response to the imbalance between reality and technology today. He produces etchings, paintings, photography as well as a wide range of digitally produced images, animations and Virtual Reality experiences. His subjects differ widely, but relate closely to the impact of technology on society. He has a keen interest in the importance of architecture, nature and history which he attempts to reflect in his work. Charles has a background working in the film and architecture industries, and studied Art History BA at University of Nottingham, and Fine Art MA at University of the Arts London.
Opening Friday, November 7 in the Rick Faries Gallery is Metanoia featuring the work of Charles Harrop-Griffiths and Ajani Tucker. Metanoia is an exploration of what constitutes the 'real'. The exhibition examines how digital processes shape, distort, and redefine our understanding of the material world. Both artists are concerned with how works that exist in digital space are rendered—or translated—from metaobjects into tangible art objects.
Tucker's works challenge what it means to "render" in real life, treating the canvas as a mutable surface—one that can be manipulated and transformed much like pixels on a screen. His practice bridges design, 3D animation, and fine art, creating vivid, kinetic compositions that appear to oscillate between stillness and motion.
Harrop-Griffiths's NEXUS is a series of modular works about reconstruction — about how fragments, ideas, and experiences can be pulled together and accepted for what they are. The series explores growth as something built from intersection — the meeting of disciplines, influences, and instincts that coexist rather than compete. NEXUS is about learning to see connection in contrast, to rebuild from fragments, and to recognise that change often begins the moment things start to align in their own way.
Together, Tucker and Harrop-Griffiths invite viewers to reconsider what is real, what is constructed, and how the digital and physical continually fold into one another.