From 2nd to 24th March, Maddox Gallery is championing emerging female artists with the women only exhibition ‘HERSTORY – Women in Art’ at Maddox Gallery on Maddox Street, London.
The exhibition, which launches a week before International Women’s Day, brings together a collection of emerging female artists, redefining the conversation around women in art and the landscape within which they work.
Maddox Gallery has always had a reputation for sourcing and exhibiting exclusive, cutting edge art from internationally acclaimed and emerging artists. International Women’s Day, an important date in the Gallery calendar, is no exception.
Featured artists include Sophie Tea, Beau Dunn, Lauren Baker, Coco Dávez, Lily Kemp and Sooyoung Chung working across photography, painting and neon installations. The exhibition brings together themes of identity, domesticity, the female body, consumerism and spirituality.
Sophie Tea’s series ‘Nudes’ is a vibrant and colourful celebration of the human form, female body diversity and self-love. Subverting the stereotype of receiving unwanted nude images from male attention, Tea turned to her dedicated Instagram following for submissions for the series ensuring her supporters were part of her artistic process receiving over 1000 nudes in a single night.
Spanish born Coco Dávez, renowned for her vibrant use of acrylic paint and block colour style, is another exhibition highlight. Exploring themes of identity, nostalgia and iconography her ‘Faceless’ works depict a diverse mix of cultural and historical influencers ranging from celebrities, musicians and artists to film characters and cartoons.
With International Women’s Day being celebrated for over 100 years, in 2020, Maddox Gallery is reflecting on the incredible progress made by the female artists Maddox Gallery represents.
Maddox believes that “equality isn’t a woman issue, it’s a business issue and over the course the week our actions, our conversations, the curated show will have a larger impact on a more equal art world for the future.”
Set to be a highlight within the calendar, this exhibition reinforces Maddox’s commitment to supporting ongoing, positive change in the gallery programming and showcasing the work of emerging female artists from across the globe.
The HERSTORY exhibition runs from 2nd-24th March 2020.
Additional artists that are being celebrated for their creativity at HERSTORY include:
- Beau Dunn – An American artist who has been described as a contemporary conceptual mixed media artist who has an instantly recognisable vibrant colour palette, and bold social commentary on societal pressures with an underlying tone of childhood innocence.
- Cayla Birk – An outstanding young artist whose creative and intelligent mind thrives on a contemporary style. A large portion of Cayla’s works merge traditional acrylic paints with other unique materials; she transcends the confines of mixed media art to create a style all her own. Cayla transcends the confines of mixed media art to create a style all her own.
- Emily Ponsonby – An English artist, she seeks to capture the natural, the organic and the Nude. For the last 8 years, Emily has developed a technique based upon the ‘encaustic’ process of the Ancient Egyptians, melting honeyed beeswax between layers of oil.
- Graceland – An English artist, she is best known for her bold use of colour in her vibrant illustrations and paintings which depict the darker side of human consumption. Her art visualizes self-obsession and displays self-questioning quotes.
- Karimah Hassan – Born in Wales, 1992 of Yemeni and Bangladeshi heritage, she is a painter & mural artist with a background in architecture and design, who is heralded for taking stories full circle, from the canvas to the streets.
- Kate Bellm – An English photographer, Kate is nomadic and wild by nature who has created her own world through her images- one of iridescent colours, nude silhouettes and surreal natural surroundings.
- Molly Brocklehurst – London-born, her paintings are strange fictions that blur the boundary between document and fiction and seeks to create new rituals and new possibilities for our collective histories whilst addressing time, loss and nostalgia.
- Lauren Baker – A self-taught, British multi-disciplinary artist renowned for her work using lights and reflective material. Her works involve neon, infinity mirrors and moving sculptures to explore light, space, energy fields, the afterlife and other dimensions.
- Lily Kemp – Kemp explores the representation of women of colour and how they are represented within visual culture and art history. Critical of the hyper sexualisation of the female body in the media and the female nude within art history, Lily’s work offers an alternate gaze to the traditional white cis male-centred gaze.
- Sooyoung Chung – A south Korean author, she explores what lies between misery and joy, deprivation and desire using depicting objects present in the everyday experience of contemporary people.
Location: Maddox Gallery Maddox Street, 9 Maddox St, Mayfair, London W1S 2QE
For further information please visit: www.maddoxgallery.com.
