We are delighted to announce Stephen Finer’s fourth solo exhibitions at Art Space Gallery which takes as its title a line from Seán Hewitt’s poem The Slur of the Heart; a poem co-commissioned in 2021 by Manchester Literature Festival and Manchester City Art Gallery in response to Derek Jarman’s Protest exhibition at the Gallery. Following a chance discovery of the poem by Finer an exchange of messages took place that led to a meeting and paintings that feature in this exhibition. The poem hasn’t been included in any of Seán Hewitt’s books but features with his happy encouragement in this catalogue.