PLINTH | PIPPA EL-KADHI BROWN: ANGELS, GHOSTS, TOM AND JERRY

"Recently, El-Kadhi Brown’s work featured in a group exhibition at Studio West which also aimed to 'playfully disembowel' the domestic environment. Titled The Angel in the House’, in reference to the Victorian ideal of domesticated femininity, the exhibition brought together seven emerging women artists, all of whom variously explore ideas of womanhood, and examine the domestic as something that can both be a suffocating bind and a source of creative freedom. 'It's something that women will never be able to walk away from,' El-Kadhi Brown says. 'I think the exhibition is beautiful because all the artists have a very different approach to this idea. ' Included at Studio West are two paintings that are smaller than most of her works, and 'very soft and very delicate.' To her, this delicate, almost pastel-like style seemed suffused with 'this angelic feeling'."