Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, will exhibit works from seven contemporary artists who use varying degrees of figuration in their work as a way to explore the potential of painterly abstraction, and how this abstraction can extend and deepen narrative. Each artist uses their own particular form of mark making – from the gestural and intuitive to the precise – to explore story telling, lived experience and traces of memory. Through a tightly curated selection of twenty works made in the past 12 years, the exhibition will explore the complexities inherent to image making and representation. The work of artists Stephen Chambers RA, John Copeland and Emma Fineman explores painting’s gestural potential and the tensions between surface materiality and narrative. Contemporary landscape painting will be represented in the exhibition by Goan artist Karishma D’Souza. Bounding abstraction and representation, D’Souza reconstructs imagined and remembered scenes to create surreal and abstracted landscapes. Works by Eileen Cooper RA, Iris Schomaker and Ella Walker are driven by the process of drawing. The surfaces of these artists’ work testify to their working methods, revealing pencil marks, and strong, graphic outlines.
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