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The Reality In Whytch You Create: Group Exhibition

Past exhibition
14 January - 17 February 2022
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The Reality In Whytch You Create, Group Exhibition

STUDIO WEST presents its inaugural group show, The Reality in Whytch You Create, bringing together new works by a selection of London’s most exciting emerging artists, Sholto Blissett, Lydia Makin, Alfie Rouy, Anna Woodward and Salomé Wu

The exhibition explores reality in an expanded sense, drawing on dreams, subconscious experience, and myths. The artists separately create surreal depictions of space, unusual characters and new assemblages of images which disorient and challenge the veracity of our experiences. Largely through painting, accompanied by Wu's sound and video work, each artist unveils pieces that collapse and blend facets of the imaginary with the everyday.

 

The works on show are united by a common theme, that of world building, and draw on significant shared influences such as surrealism, classicism, architecture, fantasy and escapism. The artists question the limits of our environment; common motifs connect the works and invite the viewer to observe the similarities and differences in each artists' presentation of their imagined world. The exhibited pieces largely consist of paintings, complimented by AV work, which blend fluidly, mixing ideas and expanding on the questions posed by each work alone. This triumphant exhibition emerges directly from the forced extended 'winter' of the global pandemic and thrusts the viewer into the warmth of the artists' worlds. 

 

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Works
  • Sholto Blissett, Garden of Hubris XXV , 2021
    Sholto Blissett, Garden of Hubris XXV , 2021
  • Sholto Blissett, Garden Study, 2021
    Sholto Blissett, Garden Study, 2021
  • Sholto Blissett, Stone Pine , 2021
    Sholto Blissett, Stone Pine , 2021
  • Lydia Makin, Grace, 2021
    Lydia Makin, Grace, 2021
  • Lydia Makin, Unrighteousness , 2021
    Lydia Makin, Unrighteousness , 2021
  • Alfie Rouy, Fazon, 2021
    Alfie Rouy, Fazon, 2021
  • Alfie Rouy, Love Is A Basket of Light, 2022
    Alfie Rouy, Love Is A Basket of Light, 2022
  • Alfie Rouy, The Reality in Whych you Create is Swyphtly Healed by Devotion to Good!, 2021
    Alfie Rouy, The Reality in Whych you Create is Swyphtly Healed by Devotion to Good!, 2021
  • Alfie Rouy, The White Raven, 2021
    Alfie Rouy, The White Raven, 2021
  • Anna Woodward, Hacking Back the Thistle, 2021
    Anna Woodward, Hacking Back the Thistle, 2021
  • Anna Woodward, Land of the Fig and Snake, 2021
    Anna Woodward, Land of the Fig and Snake, 2021
  • Anna Woodward, Knotted Roots of a Strawberry Plant, 2021
    Anna Woodward, Knotted Roots of a Strawberry Plant, 2021
  • Salomé Wu, Wind Stood Still Print 2, 2021
    Salomé Wu, Wind Stood Still Print 2, 2021
  • Salomé Wu, Wind Stood Still, Dancing Silently, 2021
    Salomé Wu, Wind Stood Still, Dancing Silently, 2021
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Press
  • MADE IN BED: Review

    Rhiannon Roberts, Made in Bed Magazine, 15 February 2022
  • FAD: Top 5 Exhibitions to View in London

    FAD
  • FAD: Finding Hope In Imagined Worlds and Alternative Futures

    Bella Bonner Evans, FAD, 6 February 2022
  • Collectible Dry: EXPLORE THE BOUNDLESS WORLD OF A NEW GENERATION OF ARTISTS

    Gilda Bruno, Collectible Dry, 19 January 2022
  • FAD: The Reality in Whytch You Create

Events
  • ARTIST Q&A

    ARTIST Q&A

    Hosted by Hector Campbell 4 February 2022
    Q&A with the Artists Friday 4th February, 6:30pm Please join us for a Q&A with SHOLTO BLISSETT, LYDIA MAKIN, ALFIE ROUY, ANNA WOODWARD & SALOMÉ WU as a part of our newest exhibition The Reality in Whytch You Create. We are thrilled to be welcoming Art Historian, Writer, Curator and Consultant Hector Campbell ( @campbell.hector ) to the gallery to host the discussion. The Q&A will be held informally in the gallery space from 6:30pm, followed by an opportunity for collectors and supporters to meet the artists.
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Related artists

  • Sholto Blissett

    Sholto Blissett

  • Lydia Makin

    Lydia Makin

  • Alfie Rouy

    Alfie Rouy

  • Anna Woodward

    Anna Woodward

  • Salomé Wu

    Salomé Wu

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