Woodland surprise
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If you go down to Hoxton’s Pure Evil Gallery next week, you’ll be sure of a woodland inspired surprise.
Showing from 4 November is the Secret Den exhibition; a group show inspired by the natural world.
Alex Moore - Deer head dress
Disciplines on show at the exhibition include art and design, photography, fashion and textiles; from artists Alex Moore, Ben Lees, Caitlin Smail, Georgia Bosson, Maria Roslova and Naa Teki Lebar.
Ben Lees cells
Maria Rosolova
To give the show even more of a natural feel, the gallery space will be transformed into an urban wilderness to encourage visitors to be immersed into the faux-forest and allow them to explore the work as nature intended.
Naa Teki Lebar Secret Lives of Nature
Austrian born artist Naa Teki Lebar’s work (seen on the exhibition flyer) is inspired by mythology, theatricality and fantasy to explore memory, space and the self. Her picture The Secret of Nature and the Nature of Secrets depicts a surreal scene of a human hand emerging behind a sofa in a gnarly woodland wilderness, which, she says, plays with ‘the idea of the lucid dream and its connotation and symbolism.’
Georgia Bosson
Another highlight is the print and cutwork of textile designer Georgia Bosson. Inspired by ‘the exposure of hidden environments’, her drawings, textile pieces and installations are heavily informed by the transience of shadows.
She says, ‘I am fascinated by the beauty of something so simple and overlooked and yet shadows provide some of the most complex and beautiful patterns that I have ever seen.’
She adds, ‘The work then in turn creates its own shadows which change depending on the light and environment enabling the pieces to transform a space.’
Caitlin Smail
In Caitlin Smail’s work (pictured), she uses found objects, the texture of surfaces and iconography to explore the submerged layers of the human psyche.
She says, ‘My current perspective centres on art as a therapeutic outlet for traumatic and repressed memories of events and situations. Using differing media and techniques, I experiment with ways to give voice to the subconscious.’
Secret Den can be seen from 4-11 November at Pure Evil Gallery, 108 Leonard Street, London, EC2A. Open Monday-Sunday, 10-6
