Group Exhibition featuring Darcy Brenna, Ellie Davies, Emmanuelle Norré, Harry Hugo Little, Jake Freeman, Meryl Yana and Ziqi Chen.

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓮𝓪𝓱𝓸𝓻𝓼𝓮 𝓥𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓾𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝔁𝓮 leverages its titular metaphor to examine the role of the destructive impulse within the psyche and artistic creation. Presenting a compelling battle between sensitivity and aggression, instinct and intellect, beauty and decay, seven artists tap into our base passions, deploying animal iconography, nocturnal narratives, or alchemical approaches to materials. Collectively, work in the exhibition recalls the psychoanalytic concept of the ‘death-drive’, with artists revealing a sense of violence against the self, nature, or the very medium of painting. From this thematic sparring emerges the triumph of art that strikes at the nervous system
- virtue to be found within the visceral.