Exhibition
Anima
21 Apr 2022 – 5 May 2022
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 35-36 Thurloe Place
- London
England - SW7-2HP
- United Kingdom
The first solo exhibition of British Trinidadian artist Bryony Benge-Abbott, Anima introduces her vibrant paintings, drawings & textiles, inviting us into worlds within worlds where the artist delights in and grapples with the sensation of losing and finding oneself in nature.
About
Anima, Latin for life force, soul, spirit, is the first solo exhibition of British Trinidadian artist Bryony Benge-Abbott. The show introduces her vibrant paintings, drawings & textiles, inviting us into worlds within worlds where the artist delights in and grapples with the sensation of losing and finding oneself in nature.
Rich portals to ancestral lands layered with memory and folklore meet fleeting encounters with light, sound and motion. Tangled roots, lush mosses and delicate lichens draw us into landscapes where glimpses of abstracted figures dance through veils of colour and pattern.
In her paintings, Benge-Abbott searches beyond the everyday to make contact with the overlapping, dynamic forces of life. Her most recent works were made in light of our collective experiences of climate change and the pandemic, and her personal loss of both parents. They ask not how to resist change but instead seek to understand what is in us that cannot be destroyed, finding grounding and anima in nature.