Norwegian artist Sverre Malling is a maker of possible worlds, many of them expressed in this exhibition of charcoal drawings At the Mistress’s Request, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery from Saturday 10 January. These are images of different pasts, presents and futures, malleable reality. The gallery writes ‘In his portrait Torje, for instance, we find a sensitive and immediate meditation on modern masculinity. The sinuous, painfully precise rendition of this leonine figure, part hippy, part Baroque peacock, invites ambiguity and incertitude. Elsewhere, a brutal scene of spiked frog-like creatures suggests the phantasmagorical intensity of artists such as Tessa Farmer. Throughout the exhibition, Malling deftly juggles innocence and morbidity, revealing and revelling in their sameness as much as in their tension.’