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Viewing At Peace


Gillian Jason Gallery has made its name championing female and non-binary artists from across the generations. Established by the pioneering art dealer Gillian Jason in 1982, it is now helmed by Gillian’s daughter, Elli, and granddaughter, Millie.

Inaugurating the gallery’s new HQ at 19 Great Titchfield Street — the UK’s first female-focused commercial gallery space — is a new exhibition by leading Black female artists who are subverting and rethinking how Black women have been represented in Western painting. The featured artists are Alanis Forde, Miranda Forrester, Sahara Longe, Cece Philips and Emma Prempeh.

‘The ethereal artworks presented in this exciting exhibition feel “at peace”, radiating and basking in a tangible presence of their own by embodying pleasure and contentment,’ said exhibition curator Jade Foster. ‘The works and exhibition itself are a practice of world-building, developing past imaginaries within Black abstraction and figurative painting, which establishes Black figures as the protagonist.’

It promises to be a thought-provoking show that challenges and questions and invites us to reflect and effect change.

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09 December 2021 — 30 January 2022
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