Liminal Gallery Podcast host, Louise Fitzjohn, speaks with artist Lindsey Jean McLean, who has a solo exhibition 'Oversized Swords, Chains and Gloves' in our Margate-based Gallery. Lindsey Jean McLean studied her BA in painting at Glasgow School of Art (2009-2013), she is a Drawing Year graduate from The Royal Drawing School (2013-2014) and a recent post-graduate in painting from The Slade School of Fine Art (2019-2021). Selected exhibitions include Solo Show at Galerie Wolfsen (2022, Aaborg, Denmark), Power of Femininity at Kutlesa Gallery (2022, Goldau, Switzerland) Veiled Bodies at Liliya Gallery (2021, London, UK) and London Grads Now at The Saatchi Gallery (2021, London, UK).
Fleshy naked bodies juxtaposed against cool malleable textures, ask to what end will the pursuit of pleasure take; with the sting of passion or the emptiness of a glove? ‘Oversized Swords, Chains and Gloves’ features a new body of work and is a window into the recurring themes that provoke and inform Lindsey Jean McLean’s practice.
Common to each work is a preoccupation with how intimate relationships — those with others and yourself — shape the perception of our interior and physical landscapes. It is a world of humble ferocity, filled as much with desperation and romance, as it is with tenderness, melancholy and solitude. Together these paintings provide a glimpse into the vicissitudes of self acceptance, falling in love, its ecstasy and absence.
McLeans canvases are woven with stories that evoke the rawness of the world we live in now - interrogating the fragility of the human condition and the carceral structures that inhibit our world, tirelessly searching for new and alternative ways of loving and self exploration.
Read the full press release here:
https://www.liminal-gallery.com/oversized-swords-chains-and-gloves
Or visit the viewing room here:
https://www.liminal-gallery.com/lindsey-jean-mclean-oversized-swords-chains-and-gloves
Contact us: info@liminal-gallery.com
Follow us on Instagram: @liminal_gallery
With original music by Lorenzo Bonari.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
