Exhibitions
Alexis Soul-Gray: Memory Play
Alexis Soul-Gray’s solo exhibition of paintings uses clichéd images of women and children to provoke a questioning of both motherhood and nostalgia
We are delighted to introduce Memory Play, a solo exhibition by UK based Alexis Soul-Gray, who will present a group of new paintings in Bo Lee and Workman’s converted Methodist church gallery space this January.
At times disjointed and muddled, her works reflect the process of reckoning with the past and the memories she has lost and yearns for. Taking formulaic, idealised and clichéd images of women and children, she tears, cuts, rubs, scratches and bleaches them, embedding them within fragmented layers. The resulting works speak of the universal experience of loss, the mother and nostalgic longing.
A direct manifestation of a shattering personal trauma, the act of collecting and assemblage provides Soul-Gray with the opportunity to reimagine the idealised and faked images that permeate our culture. Destructive, reparative and hopefully melancholic, Soul-Gray's work presents a watchful gaze over these past lives as she re-writes their narrative through her tender transformation of the found image. Painting, drawing and collage explore echoes of the past, played out by the reparative act of collecting, selecting and re-making of public archival materials such as books, magazines, postcards and other ephemera.
Alexis Soul-Gray (b.1980, UK), lives and works in Devon. She completed a BA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Arts, London (2003), the Postgraduate Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School in 2007, and most recently an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2023).
At times disjointed and muddled, her works reflect the process of reckoning with the past and the memories she has lost and yearns for. Taking formulaic, idealised and clichéd images of women and children, she tears, cuts, rubs, scratches and bleaches them, embedding them within fragmented layers. The resulting works speak of the universal experience of loss, the mother and nostalgic longing.
A direct manifestation of a shattering personal trauma, the act of collecting and assemblage provides Soul-Gray with the opportunity to reimagine the idealised and faked images that permeate our culture. Destructive, reparative and hopefully melancholic, Soul-Gray's work presents a watchful gaze over these past lives as she re-writes their narrative through her tender transformation of the found image. Painting, drawing and collage explore echoes of the past, played out by the reparative act of collecting, selecting and re-making of public archival materials such as books, magazines, postcards and other ephemera.
Alexis Soul-Gray (b.1980, UK), lives and works in Devon. She completed a BA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Arts, London (2003), the Postgraduate Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School in 2007, and most recently an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2023).
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