The Tools For Recognition exhibition sees four artists celebrate the eclectic face of contemporary painting.

They question fixed ideas about beauty and explore memory, perception and sense of self, among other things.

Chriss Fraser's large canvases draw upon her experience as an athlete to examine traditional notions of femininity and masculinity.

Anthony McIntosh brings together rusted steel, photographs and ephemera in works which exude a fragile, yet very enduring quality.

The recreation of beauty from decay is central to Moira McNair's hybrid paintings and June Nelson reflects upon the image of the mirror and the ambiguous metaphors surrounding these objects through history.

This exhibition runs until February 8.

Ship Of Fools, on the other hand, is an exhibition which forges links between pre-20th Century narrative painting and present day experience.

You will encounter the work of Stephanie Goodger, who describes a world of water, ships, castles and fish, at once magnificent and also hellish.

Changeling creatures, both comical and grotesque inhabit the interior spaces of Mark Anstee's striking paintings.

Christopher Gilvan-Cartwright's hallucinatory landscapes, meanwhile, suggest the vivid and terrifying visions of one lost at sea.

The work of all three artists shares an element in common with classical Greek drama, in which insights into the dark and destructive nature of life are balanced or harnessed by the beauty of form.

This exhibition runs from February 15 until March 15. Tel. 01273 603700.