Exhibition: Stillreceiving

A signal from somewhere between comfort and static.

Tarun’s work feels like fragments of a dream caught mid-signal: quiet, unsettling, and strangely comforting. Using raw charcoal, layered textures, and instinctive mark-making, he creates emotionally charged images that exist somewhere between memory and imagination. Each piece emerges through chaos rather than careful planning, smeared, scratched, erased, and rebuilt until something begins to surface. His work explores isolation, connection, silence, and the strange comfort found within unfamiliar spaces. Tarun is interested in creating images that feel familiar but slightly off, like a memory you can’t fully place, or a signal trying to break through noise. The work is not about giving answers, but about leaving room for feeling, interpretation, and recognition.

Tarun Arunachalam (b. 2000, India) is a self-taught charcoal artist whose work explores the quiet tension between chaos and meaning, where smeared marks, static textures, and erased shadows resolve into dreamlike scenes. Born and raised in India and later completing a Master’s degree in the United Kingdom, Arunachalam’s practice is shaped by distance, memory, and the feeling of living between places. Working primarily with charcoal and subtle white highlights, he begins each piece with raw, instinctive mark, making, then “pulls” imagery from the noise, allowing figures and environments to emerge as if received through interference. The resulting works carry an atmosphere of eerie comfort: familiar spaces that feel slightly off, like a half, remembered broadcast or a message trying to reach home. Driven by daily practice and an intuitive approach to drawing, Arunachalam continues to build a distinctive visual world where tenderness survives the static, and imagination becomes a way of finding meaning in the dark. stillreceiving.com 

Location: The Art Space, Cass Art Liverpool

Dates: 18th - 31st May 2026

Admission: FREE

This exhibition has step-free access.