Richard Cuerden graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001 with a sell-out show.

He was described in The Independent as one of the college's "brightest fine-art prospects".

A performer on the West End stage in shows such as Cats and 42nd Street until the age of 28, this background has clearly affected Cuerden's way of looking at the world in his second career as an artist.

The pictures are like snapshots, as if the world is a stage.

The exhibition recalls moments from Cuerden's childhood: School days, being at home in the holidays and seeing his mother from afar in various rooms of his house.

He stages these moments as, perhaps, only an actor could.

"I show them in a series because they run like film stills. When you've had a whole career in something you can draw from it. It's like I'm choreographing myself now in my own pictures."

In It Wasn't Me, a teenage boy at the bottom of the stairs at home turns around and looks directly at the viewer.

It seems as though the innocent begins to look guilty under the duress of the accusation.

The painting Blue stands out as being of a different atmosphere altogether. As dawn breaks but the blue darkness of the night still lingers, a figure runs down a street with reflective puddles on the pavement."

"The painting is about a boy wanting to better himself and wanting to be in a different place."

Cuerden looks back at films and photographs of his childhood for inspiration but merely seeing a colour can remind him of the essence of a past moment.

While the paintings pertain to himself, Cuerden wants others to relate to them too.

"It's a memory thing. I want people to remember their own childhood."

Juxtaposed with the school days pictures are paintings of flowers in fields with titles such as Pick Me.

My initial reaction was these were, perhaps, Cuerden's retreat from the recollection of adolescence.

Cuerden, who attended ballet school from the age of four, explains he used them to symbolically portray the ballet dancers at school.

"It's such a short career. It's like they're pushing forwards and want to be looked at. Flowers are the same."

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