Shadows is from Spier's 2017 exhibition Divided Paintings, the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Many of Spier’s obsessions are present: over-saturated colour, optically charged patterns and a composition poised at the threshold of re-organisation. Whilst Spier’s paintings appear as though shattered by some blunt force, this initial sense of violence is counterbalanced by a constructive logic. Spier’s Divided Paintings begin with a rectangular plane that is slightly smaller than the canvas. That plane is then sliced into smaller sections, and spaced apart in a contiguous formation. This now broken plane catalyses the division of the canvas into a spectrum of colours. The aggressive fragmentation of the image is countered by concentric patterns inscribed upon the planes. These simple patterns remain coherent even when the plane is broken apart, and so point to how our attention flickers between the perception of visual contrasts and the recognition of pictorial categories. In Shadows Spier creates a tension whereby the reunification of parts is both irresistible and implausible.