Ludicrous Alchemy

About

Ludicrous Alchemy brings together artists Flora Bradwell and Jazmin Donaldson for a salacious two hander exhibition. Animal hybrids cavort on acid green lawns, tiled floors become enormous knickers swimming behind Victorian archways. Each artists' work is deeply rooted in dream worlds of their own making with a hallucinatory narrative quality. The surreal visual stories exposed by Bradwell and Donaldson in their high octane paintings are charged with symbolism and humour. Beneath the highly pigmented surface lies a desire to subvert patriarchal norms and pick through multiplicities of meaning.

Bradwell’s work has a compulsion towards the carnivalesque, a vibrant trashy aesthetic and the desire to playfully rub the fantastical against the everyday. Compositions of frescoes, cult manifestoes and nursery rhymes are squeezed through a generously grotesque filter to create dimly recognizable imagined worlds.

Donaldson is inspired by old fairy tales and myths where she re-uses already known motifs in order to tell contemporary stories and concerns. Through different imagery she examines themes of identity and perception while playing with the absurd. She is specifically interested in what femininity can mean and the subjectivity of the female psyche.

Ludicrous Alchemy nods towards the strange architecture that houses each artists' stories and invites the viewer to immerse them self in this playful multi sensory exhibition. We can't wait to invite you into our rollicking dream-scape.