We’ve got two new artists to introduce this week, with some exciting qualities I’m pleased to share with you. As you probably know, the degree shows are when most artists join the gallery. Then, as at all times, I have a few things in mind when thinking about artists who would be a good fit for the gallery – which you can read more about in this article I wrote for MoneyWeek magazine.
All the best,
Sarah
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Rebecca‘s work is fascinating. I’m particularly loving her use of the marker pen. When we see an artist using media in innovative and unexpected ways – in this case, elevating a media – we are challenged to reframe our understandings. And this enjoyable challenge isn’t confined to the media alone: encompassing also the unexpected composition and subject matter, as well as an intensity, an obvious enjoyment of the handling of the media in the description of the forms. These works are quite special and it’s taking me some time to assimilate them visually, I think because this is visually new – and is the indicator of someone doing really quite unusual things, a delightful rarity.
Please note some of these works on canvas by Rebecca are loose: they haven’t been stretched. We don’t generally sell works unstretched, and they will need to be stretched on arrival (and framed if you wish). Prices reflects this.
Multiple contemporary art influences are visible from Yayoi Kusama, Matthew Wong to perhaps the obvious comparison to Georgia O’Keeffe with these sinuous, organic forms. Here’s a dreamy palette and all forms seem on the brink of dissolution, evolution, transformation: fluid change. There’s something deeply fertile about this work. Matthew Wong’s work was once described as having ‘fleeting moments of perfect stillness’, and there’s something of that spirit in these works too. Otherworldly, utopian, very beautiful; we are delighted to welcome Helena to the gallery.
