Unseen Silence: Nell Brookfield and Heidrun Rathgeb
Forthcoming exhibition
Overview
Unseen Silence brings together painters Nell Brookfield and Heidrun Rathgeb who share a curiosity to explore and observe, revealing states of being, within the confinements of today's often frenetic world.
Captured through drawings, before they are laid bare onto the canvas, the figurative and abstract converse to reflect universal narratives about places, relationships and people, that ultimately ask us to reflect on the question of how we embody the spaces that surround us.
Lines, and marks form the physical display of the instinctive navigation of memory. With each line a question. With each mark an echo of a moment passed. These paintings compress yet extend the artist's encounters with their indelible marks commemorating and layering memories upon one another.
Nell Brookfield is an artist living and working in London. Brookfield studied MA Painting and Drawing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, from 2019-2020, after receiving a postgraduate MA-Level from the Royal Drawing School in London, UK, and a BS in Anthropology from the University College London, UK. She has exhibited globally with solo and group exhibitions in the US, China, South Korea and London.
Heidrun Rathgeb was born in 1967 in southern Germany. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Fine Art (MFA) 1996-99 and the Byam Shaw School of Art (1993-96). Rathgeb has been awarded several artist residencies in Scotland (Isle of Lewis), Denmark and Norway.
Heidrun Rathgeb was born in 1967 in southern Germany. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Fine Art (MFA) 1996-99 and the Byam Shaw School of Art (1993-96). Rathgeb has been awarded several artist residencies in Scotland (Isle of Lewis), Denmark and Norway.
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