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Paintings on this page were shown in:
LIGHT/DARK/DARK/LIGHT,
Globe Gallery, 57 Blandford Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
19.9.2014 – 31.10.2014
Studio Stories, The Customs House Gallery,
3 February – 2 April 2017
Works from this series were also shown in:
Malerie, Newbridge Project Space, Newcastle and Transition Gallery, London, 2012
The work considers and investigates the human need to escape, albeit on a temporary basis from paramount reality, see Escape Attempts, Cohen, S & Taylor, L, (1976). A troupe of female figures, (first encountered in PALCE), escape from the vicissitudes of daily life, adopting personas borrowed from C17, 18 & 19th Spanish, Persian and French paintings and inhabit new or different pictorial spaces in which responses to living in a contemporary patriarchal society can be safely acted out. Playfully employing a range of making strategies and using a mix of representational and abstract forms, referencing a wide range of sources from the histories of painting from Abstract Expressionism to devotional imagery.
Reading:
Cohen, S. & Taylor, Laurie, (1976), Escape Attempts: the theory and practice of resistance in everyday life
Jameson, S. (1969 & 1970), Journey from the North, (vols.1 &2)
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