Exhibition
Pick It Out Of Your Teeth Afterwards
20 Jun 2025 – 5 Jul 2025
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- 29 Sunbury Workshops
- Swanfield Street
- London
England - E2 7LF
- United Kingdom
'Pick it Out of Your Teeth Afterwards' is a new body of painting and sculptural works by Izzie Beirne, imbued with references to imbalances of power, longing and safety.
About
Beirne’s works come together to create narrative dialogues, each work a piece in a puzzle for the viewer to decipher and assign meaning. The paintings showcase dreamlike and nightmarish scenes, where enlarged limbs are violently cropped, social scenes are abandoned and ghostlike figures guard locked doors. Beirne’s disconcerting disruption of scale plays with notions of power and safety. Motion blur and soft focus sway between violence, sensuality and comfort.
The paintings allude to the filmic language from which they are plucked. For this body of work she has worked exclusively from the film ‘The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover’ 1989 by Peter Greenaway, collecting screen grabs to paint and instill with new meaning.
Beirne further references film with two sculptural gestures. A lonely chair strewn across the gallery floor and a fish left to rot, come together as if elements from a set. Past actions are immortalised obstructing how the space is navigated, whilst suggesting connotations of loss and mourning. From the romantic to the horrific, Beirne’s work is in a constant state of push and pull, building worlds for the viewer to pick out of their teeth afterwards.