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Paper Doll, 2015 oil, varnish and ink on canvas 70 x 100 cm (27 ⅗ x 39 ⅜ in)
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Queen, 2015 oil and varnish on canvas 100 x 70 cm (39 ⅜ x 27 ⅗ in)
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Shoot, 2015 oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm (27 ⅗ x 39 ⅜ in)
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Vanitas, 2015 oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm (27 ⅗ x 39 ⅜ in)
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Red Dot oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm (27 ⅗ x 39 ⅜ in)
Exhibition
New Britannia: Reinventing British Iconography
12 Oct 2015 – 12 Mar 2016
Event times
Roast Restaurant Bar Hours:
Monday to Wednesday
7:00am – midnight
Thursday and Friday
7:00am – 00:45
Saturday
8.30am – 00:45
Sunday
11.30am – 7:45pm
Cost of entry
Free
The Floral Hall
Address
- The Floral Hall
- Stoney St
- London
- SE1 1TL
- United Kingdom
On display at Roast Restaurant from 12 October, New Britannia: Reinventing British Iconography is a show of ten works by Rachel Maggart, juxtaposing classical & contemporary icons in painted collages.
About
Specially commissioned for Roast Restaurant, New Britannia: Reinventing British Iconography is an exhibition of ten works by American artist Rachel Maggart. On display at Roast in Borough Market from 12th October 2015, the show brings together classical and contemporary icons in a series of painted collages, exploring the rich syncretism of ideas and images in Britain today. Viewers are invited to a dining experience combining visual intrigue with the highest standard of British cuisine.
The paintings of New Britannia depart from a digital collage: scraps of images collected, manipulated and merged so that the composite picture points discreetly to a network of forces and assumptions at play underneath. This composition is then transferred to painting, crystallising it in a medium of traditional status, to subvert expectations and effectively monumentalise an absurd amalgam. Meaning emerges through new channels and associations made apparent to the viewer.
In each work, Rachel cannibalises a range of signs and symbols from pop culture to modern art history – Francis Bacon, David Bowie, J.M.W. Turner, Tracey Emin – in a process mirroring the archival system of the World Wide Web. Drawing from styles of Expressionism, Surrealism, Cubism and Pop, she observes and re-presents iconic exports of Britain so that they may be appreciated outside of any ordinary context. Forms melting, disintegrating, eroding or peeling away poke fun at prototypical beauty and our unquestioning acceptance of whatever enters into our fields of vision, be it Internet memes or hyper-rational aesthetics.
Rachel Maggart is a London-based artist and writer, who entered the fine arts through her background in classical piano, music history and theory. Her study of tone painting, chromatic harmony and 20th century minimalist composition influenced her formation as an artist. Rachel received a B.A. in Music from NYU (2007) and an M.A. in History of Art from Birkbeck College (2014), where she attended on a Gordon Square International Award.
