Configured  – Art Plugged

[RE] Configured
27 July 2022 to 6 August 2022
Shopping mall Galleries : North Gallery
The Mall, London
SW1

Figurative artists Thomas Allen, Phoebe Boddy and Zara Matthews will demonstrate a variety of their most current function in the North Gallery, Shopping mall Galleries in July 2022. Via their a few unique styles and strategy the visitor will be equipped to appreciate the breadth of figurative portray in Britain now.  The exhibition will operate concurrently with Winners, an exhibition of award-winning figurative artists from Federation of British Artists’ exhibitions in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Allen, Boddy and Matthews have been awarded the top prize at Figurative Art Now in the summer time of 2021. Figurative Artwork Now was an on-line exhibition which featured just about 400 selected is effective exploring the breadth of representational portray, drawing, sculpture and printmaking in the Uk nowadays.

What to hope?

• Is effective by a few substantial profile artists, winners of Figurative Art Now
• A broad range of their paintings, drawings, and printmaking for sale
• A staff of dedicated professionals to enable and recommend on the obtain of works 
• The possibility to take a look at a further, concurrent show: ‘Winners | Award Successful Artists 2020-2022’

The line up:

For this exhibition, Thomas Allen has designed an ambitious sequence of charcoal and sanguine performs on paper. Some are immersive in scale, befitting the depth and breadth of the matters tackled, from online privateness to Christian mythology, romantic adore to our marriage with the normal world.

All are brought together, though, through the artist’s signature dreamlike design and style – rich in pattern and natural kinds – and united by his fundamental fascination with the unconscious. “These are mindscapes,” states Allen. “They are selective mirrors, built to replicate aspects of the viewer’s individual inside entire world.”

Zara Matthews‘ new physique of perform for [Re]Configured has as its setting up issue a system in painting acknowledged as Pentimenti, an alteration in a painting evidenced by traces of former do the job. Working with layered photographs and video clip stills of located objects, the performs in this sequence emerge from electronic sketches ahead of remaining made into paintings. Through this approach, the Pentimenti of fundamental pictures, clear varieties and marks seem to reference the objects’ aura, presence and residual recollections.

Phoebe Boddy’s most latest assortment of paintings have been stimulated by how other artists have referenced foods in their get the job done and what messages they are making an attempt to portray, she also attracts inspiration from little sayings or bits of terminology referring to meals that she finds entertaining. Her substantial scale paintings are playful and generally humorous, comprised of energised brushstrokes and infused with a daring use of color and kind. 

©2022 Shopping mall Galleries, Thomas Allen, Phoebe Boddy, Zara Matth

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