Andy Parkinson reviews the exhibition Plane Space, curated by Dan Roach, at Worcester Cathedral Crypt, on view through September 15 2012. The exhibition includes paintings by Karl Bielik, Katrina Blannin, Sarah McNulty, Dan Roach, Paul Rosenbloom, and Gwennan Thomas.

Parkinson writes: "On viewing these abstract paintings at Plane Space, I could easily begin to speculate on the status of abstract painting in contemporary art, for some already consigned to the crypt, painting being dead and abstract painting especially so, quite possibly in danger of becoming a mere footnote in its ancient history. Here in this crypt however, it seems very much alive, demonstrating its power to evoke and reveal, not so much the visual world outside it as the very coding of the visual."