In Ena Swansea’s Gay Wedding, the artist draws unexpected narrative from painterly abstraction. Playing light against dark, Swansea’s forms billow and writhe with delicate fancy: fairytale ‘goddesses’ of chastity, unblemished in their virginal gowns. Enshrined in silvery celebration, Swansea’s scene is contorted with a certain stiffness: staged like actors in a play, the figures’ choreographed position carries underlying significance. Redolent of Paula Rego’s scenes of contemporary mythology, Swansea’s monumental burlesque brides convey tumultuous undertones: demur beneath their flouncy parasol, wristwatch hidden behind a back, Swansea portrays glorified romance as a folly of seduction.