A painting that holds two bodies, or two presences, just long enough to make the distance between them matter. The red field does the heating, the pale band cools it, and the forms stay half in contact, half on their way out. It reads as a return, but not an easy one.

Winks is a Melbourne painter whose work is colour-led and consistently titled in a way that suggests the words and the image arrived together. The name is deliberate, a low signal. If you catch it, it is yours.