WOO | THESE SUBVERSIVE STILL LIFE PAINTINGS INTERROGATE FEMININITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE DOMESTIC

Gilda Bruno, Woo, 3 July 2023

WOO'S GILDA BRUNO FEATURES STUDIO WEST'S EXHIBITION, 'THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE'. 

 
"This week, Bruno sits down with STUDIO WEST’s curator Bella Bonner-Evans to examine how the gallery’s new group exhibition ‘The Angel in the House’ reframes the feminine experience through surreal depictions of everyday rituals

 

Glancing at the vibrant canvases currently on show at West London’s STUDIO WEST as part of the ongoing show The Angel in the House means being instantly absorbed into a different dimension. Splashed across these surfaces is a vortex of fading memories, revisited family gatherings and fantasy scenarios quietly surfaced in the participating artists’ mind before bursting in a hypnotising succession of brushstrokes. Presenting works by seven emerging UK-based female painters, including Jess Allen, Pippa El-Kadhi Brown, Olha Pryymak, Florence Reekie, Elena Rivera-Montanes, Grace Tobin, and Xu Yang, the group exhibition examines “the manifold ways in which these creatives are engaging with domestic space, weaving in symbolic narratives from meticulously selected objects”, curator Bella Bonner-Evans tells woo."