Exhibition
EXTENDED - Reverence: A debut solo show by Sophie Macdonald
12 Oct 2017 – 20 Oct 2017
Event times
11am-6pm
Finissage: 6-9pm
Cost of entry
free
Address
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- Ladbroke Grove
- London
- W10 4RA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses 52, 452
- Ladbroke Grove (tube), Kensal Green (tube/overground)
- Kensal Rise (overground)
A dialogue in paintings exploring the contradictions of Muslim women who wear the veil and European women who pose naked.
About
***EXTENDED***
Reverence is now extended until Friday 20th October, open Monday to Friday with Finissage event on Thursday 19th from 6-9pm.
Sophie Macdonald, a young artist who has spent all her life in North Kensington, has long been fascinated by the veiled Muslim women who are her neighbours. She has produced a remarkable series of portraits of hijab wearing women in lighthearted mood, skipping with ropes.
"I wanted to challenge my own prejudices" she says, "to open up a discussion about widely different attitudes to the female body."
She explores these contrasts by including a series of women posing naked or semi-naked, portraits painted on builders planks.
