Lauren Brown, Smooch, 2024, Oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm (78 3/4 x 63 in)
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Lauren Brown, Smooch, 2024, (detail) Oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm (78 3/4 x 63 in)
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Lauren Brown, Visceral Hellscape, 2024, Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm (78 3/4 x 66 7/8 in)
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Lauren Brown, Visceral Hellscape, 2024, (detail) Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm (78 3/4 x 66 7/8 in)
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Lauren Brown, Acid Blood, 2024, Oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm (59 x 59 in)
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Lauren Brown, Acid Blood, 2024, (detail) Oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm (59 x 59 in)
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Lauren Brown, The Thing, 2024, Oil on canvas, 55 x 90 cm (21 5/8 x 35 3/8 in)
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Lauren Brown, The Thing, 2024, (detail) Oil on canvas, 55 x 90 cm (21 5/8 x 35 3/8 in)
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Gina Kuschke, I The Willow, You The Wind, 2024, Oil on canvas, 195 x 245 cm (76 3/4 x 96 1/2 in)
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Gina Kuschke, I The Willow, You The Wind, 2024, (detail), Oil on canvas, 195 x 245 cm (76 3/4 x 96 1/2 in)
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Gina Kuschke, Sea Bird, Go Home, 2024, Oil on canvas, 110 x 135 cm (43 1/4
x 53 1/8 in)
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Gina Kuschke, Sea Bird, Go Home, 2024, (detail) Oil on canvas, 110 x 135 cm (43 1/4 x 53 1/8 in)
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Gina Kuschke, The Ostrich, The Cave and The Iron River, 2024, Oil on canvas,
120 x 150 cm (47 1/4 x 59 in)
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Gina Kuschke, The Ostrich, The Cave and The Iron River, 2024, (detail) Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm (47 1/4 x 59 in)
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Gina Kuschke, Sex in the Shower, 2023-2024, Oil on canvas, five panels, 200 x 250 cm (78 3/4 x 98 3/8 in)
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Gina Kuschke, Sex in the Shower, 2023-2024, (detail) Oil on canvas, five panels, 200 x 250 cm (78 3/4 x 98 3/8 in)
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Catherine Long, Metamorphosis, 2024, Oil and oil bar on canvas, 195 x 220 cm (76 3/4 x 86 5/8 in)
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Catherine Long, Metamorphosis, 2024, (detail) Oil and oil bar on canvas, 195 x 220 cm (76 3/4 x 86 5/8 in)
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Catherine Long, Dreaming of New Mexico, 2024, Oil and oil bar on canvas, 150 x 170 cm (59 x 66 7/8 in)
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Catherine Long, Dreaming of New Mexico, 2024, (detail) Oil and oil bar on canvas, 150 x 170 cm (59 x 66 7/8 in)
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Catherine Long, Internal Landscape, 2024, Oil and oil bar on canvas, 220 x 260cm (86 5/8 x 102 3/8 in)
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Catherine Long, Internal Landscape, 2024, (detail) Oil and oil bar on canvas, 220 x 260cm (86 5/8 x 102 3/8 in)
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Catherine Long, I can’t help but tilt towards you, 2024, Oil on linen, 80 x 70
cm (31 1/2 x 27 1/2 in)
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Catherine Long, I can’t help but tilt towards you, 2024, (detail) Oil on linen, 80 x 70 cm (31 1/2 x 27 1/2 in)
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Catherine Long, Untitled Heartbreak, 2024, Oil, oil bar, ground granite and
quartz on canvas, 220 x 180 cm (86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in)
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Catherine Long, Untitled Heartbreak, 2024, (detail) Oil, oil bar, ground granite and quartz on canvas, 220 x 180 cm (86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in)
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Catherine Lowe, Separate All These Grains 1, 2023, Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in)
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Catherine Lowe, Separate All These Grains 1, 2023, (detail) Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in)
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Catherine Lowe, Separate All These Grains 2, 2023, Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in)
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Catherine Lowe, Separate All These Grains 2, 2023, (detail) Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in)
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Catherine Lowe, Separate All These Grains 3, 2023, Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm
(9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in)
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Catherine Lowe, Separate All These Grains 3, 2023, (detail) Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in)
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Catherine Lowe, Something Struggling to be Held, 2024, Oil and gesso on
canvas, 155 x 175 cm (61 x 68 7/8 in)
Photo: Reliant Imaging
Catherine Lowe, Something Struggling to be Held, 2024, (detail) Oil and gesso on canvas, 155 x 175 cm (61 x 68 7/8 in)
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Installation view: Scene V: Pas de Quatre
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Catherine Lowe, Material Considerations, 2024, Oil, beeswax and gesso on
canvas, 240 x 200 cm (94 1/2 x 78 3/4 in)
Photo: Reliant Imaging
Catherine Lowe, Material Considerations, 2024, (detail) Oil, beeswax and gesso on canvas, 240 x 200 cm (94 1/2 x 78 3/4 in)
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Catherine Lowe, A Tremor and a Pause, 2024, Oil and gesso on canvas, 205 x
175 cm (80 3/4 x 68 7/8 in)
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Catherine Lowe, A Tremor and a Pause, 2024, (detail) Oil and gesso on canvas, 205 x 175 cm (80 3/4 x 68 7/8 in)
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The four painters contributing to this pas de quatre explore the bounty of abstraction with varying degrees of seduction, style, substance and surface yet all move their viewer to a sort of transubstantiation of paint into passage; of mark into modulation. In this 'Scene' painting is performance. Every stroke a gesture; every mark a movement; every surface a relic. Moreover, each artists' practice connects yet tests the vocabulary, dimensions, time and space of painting as informed relationally with and rhythmically by the disciplines of dance and music. These orchestrations - be they modelled or planed into pillars of description or kindled into plumes of painterly kinesis - are the result of their physical interaction with tool, medium and support but are also nurtured by their own inner monologues, conceptualised then coloured by the vagaries and vicissitudes of mood and music, memory and motion that can equally burden or electrify composition into a largo of extended repose or an adagio of jitterbugged frenzy.
All four artists graduate this summer from London's Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting and whilst their visual accents of abstraction may offer plenty of synergy, they sound and move - just like the balletic pas de quatre - with equal assurance but in very different ways.
Scene V: Pas de Quatre opens in Matt Carey-Williams’ studio space at 12 Porchester Place, London, W2 2BS on Tuesday 9 July at 6pm. This Scene will include new works by Lauren Brown, Gina Kuschke, Catherine Long and Catherine Lowe.