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Lovely in Her Bones I [Image courtesy the artist]
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Lovely in Her Bones II, close up [Image courtesy the artist]
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Exhibition
I Shall Walk Softly There, Damaris Athene
29 Mar 2018 – 12 Apr 2018
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 43-53 Library St
- Wigan
England - WN11NN
- United Kingdom
An exhibition of black and white oil paintings that take radiology scans of various cancers as their starting point, by Damaris Athene.
About
Taking its title from Theodore Roethke's 1953 poem 'The Waking', 'I Shall Walk Softly There' features black and white oil paintings that take radiology scans of various cancers as their starting point. Damaris Athene graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2015 and works across many media, exploring the corporeal and abstraction of the human form. The body becomes unrecognisable: images are re-appropriated from medicine, scale is vastly changed or body parts are digitally manipulated. The beauty in these seemingly abstract images seems at odds with their subject matter, creating a fascinating dichotomy. Athene was shortlisted for the Hans Brinker Painting Prize in Amsterdam in 2014 and was selected for the Clyde and Co Art Award in 2015. In 2017 Athene was selected for ‘Platform for Emerging Arts #15’ at the Leyden Gallery in London and held her first solo show.
