Dazed FEATURES STUDIO WEST'S EXHIBITION, 'SKIN DEEP'.
"To step into SKIN DEEP, the upcoming group show at London’s STUDIO WEST, is to be confronted with the corporeal and its many contradictions; paintings of blushing skin, entwined limbs, intimate encounters, and scars both physical and psychological.
Featuring the work of eleven emerging UK-based figurative painters, the exhibition examines the body as a vehicle through which we interact with the world, and as a blank canvas onto which our stories are etched. Its title is laced with irony – while “skin deep” usually signifies superficiality, the artworks argue the opposite. Skin presents a paradox: it is protective yet porous and penetrable. It is the territory of touch and togetherness, and the barrier that separates self and other."
