IMMATERIAL

Isabella Amram, Kim Booker, Kristy M Chan, Laura Lancaster, Xi Liu, H.E. Morris, Sophie Smorczewski and Ming Ying

4th June - 31st July

Soho Revue is pleased to present ‘Immaterial’ an exhibition featuring the work of seven female abstract painters; Isabella Amram, Kim Booker, Kristy M Chan, Laura Lancaster, Xi Liu, H.E. Morris, Sophie Smorczewski and Ming Ying

Reclaiming this traditionally male dominated arena, these artists approach painting in personal confrontation with the canvas. The artists seek to capture that which cannot be contained, tackling the problem of how to represent the ephemeral and extant in the subconscious, into a very physical process. The works become a demonstration of the question;

‘How do you hang immaterial experience and memory onto a practice that is material?’

Answering the question through lashings of vibrant paint, a larger scale, and abstract forms, all these factors coerce in an attempt to present an intangible feeling, as the artists explore the space between the material and immaterial. In between the breadth of these two dualisms, there is an open-ness to the works where space is given to the viewer to experience through their own unique learnings. Seen in the works from Kim Booker’s female nudes that recline across a bed of flowers in a flurry of colour, their faces missing from the scene and in their place dark scribbled forms lie, to H.E. Morris’ ‘Sailor’s Warning’ with horizontal pinks, oranges, yellows streaking across the canvas.

As forms of figures emerge from abstracted backgrounds, and loud colours speak, an experience of communality is formed too, as the artists translate their deeply personal internal experience, into an external, tangible realisation on the canvas.