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