December
‘When The Curtain Falls’
Exhibiting Artists
ALEJANDRO SINTURA | ALICE NEAVE | ALMA BERROW | ALLYSON KEEHAN | FRANCES FEATHERSTONE
GEORGINA ODELL | HELEN KINCAID | JACKSON JOYCE | JESS COCHRANE | KATY PAPINEAU | KAJA STUMPF
LUCY RAY | MICHALIS KARAISKOS | PLUM CLOUTMAN | SAMANTHA FELLOWS | SHAWN HUCKINS
SOPHIE VALLANCE | TOM WHITE | VIVIEN MCDERMID | XANTHE BURDETT
5th - 22nd December 2024
Drapery has always been used to symbolise a variety of ideas. In portraiture, silks, furs and linen signify a sitter’s wealth and status, in religious painting shrouds and veils are commonly associated with the divine. By contrast, the folds of bedsheets or the curve of clothing often might hold an erotic undercurrent. Where curtains and veils might conceal, the shape of a satin dress serves to accentuate the human form, inviting our touch rather than prohibiting it. From Giotto’s ‘Kiss of Judas’, to Cezanne’s ‘Still life with drapery’; Magritte’s ‘The Lovers’ and Tracey Emin’s ‘Unmade Bed’, drapery has been a preoccupation of painters and sculptors throughout art history.
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