Bear All

About

9th - 10th March 2024 - 11 to 7pm
Private View - 8th March 2024 - 5 to 8pm

The body of work represents the artist's need to portray personal fears and intimate desires, facing real-life experiences and overcoming them through the act of drawing in clay and sculpting shadows.

There is nothing idealised or stereotypical about how Marjorie approaches her subjects. Her women are physically strong and have different temperaments. They might be desperately in pain, sexually aroused or fiercely independent. They do not perform nor cater to the male gaze. 

Whether manifested in clay figures, polenta women or body prints Marjorie addresses profound, primal needs, exploring the inner world of women from tenderness to sexual desire, from self-empowerment to emotional dependency. The resulting artworks exist beyond temporal and spatial confines simultaneously embodying both the ancient and the contemporary.

Artist Bio

Marjorie Abéla, a Maltese-English artist, delves into the diverse dimensions of human fragility using a variety of mediums. She blurs the boundaries between different materials & processes -  fabric, clay, paint, and wax drawing, painting, pattern cutting, stitching and sculpting  -  viewing them all as means to explore the physiological and emotional repercussions of life's experiences. Emphasising strength in vulnerability, Marjorie externalises life's chaos through breaks and distortions, underscoring the resilience and power inherent in the process of repair.

Bear All is curated in collaboration with Eli-Rose Sanford, KayD McAdam Freud and Chiara Famengo.