We’re delighted to introduce Emily Oades to the gallery, a young artist just graduated from Leeds Arts University. The oil paintings she’s producing are ambitious, head-turning works that recall the seminal contemporary British painter Cecily Brown – who once described painting as a transformative “kind of alchemy.” We hope you enjoy browsing Emily’s work here.
Our take:
In these arresting, monumental paintings the mood is nevertheless light – ecstatic, even – just as the application of the oil paint is light, deftly done. Compositionally her paintings will have many centres: equilibrium through multiplicity. They feel cellular in their symmetric / asymmetric rhythm. Layers upon layers of paint represent embodied desire.
Usually Emily’s paintings are overwhelmingly abstract, but on occasion coalesce into recognisable scenes, or glimpses of human forms. They do so in such a way as to reconsider distinctions between abstract and figurative scenes. Both entail an essential energy: the painter’s line – whether transcribing an abstract shape or gesture, or the shape of a limb or head – conveys electricity.
View all 2022 graduates work here
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Words by Maggie
