03.01.11
The Private View was a packed evening with friends and art lovers coming to Dulwich Village to see the show. On show was a comprehensive collection of Laura’s work made over the last couple of years, with new drawings and paintings and prints, and a fore taste of new work to come. True to form, the work’s quietly subversive underbelly showed through. The recent painting ‘Gainsborough Property Crime’, a quotation in oil that changes the narrative of Gainsborough’s well-known portrait of Mr and Mrs Andrews took centre stage upstairs in Jane Newbery’s shop. The painting shows the landowners in a different light, alluding to the background story of a young girl of sixteen, forced into an arranged marriage. In Laura’s painting, Mrs Andrews is absent, her space filled by an imagined ornate iron bench and a white outline that hints at a crime scene and Mr Andrew’s familial financial opportunism. A smaller version is available as a postcard, again playing with notions of authenticity, entitled ‘Gainsborough Property Crime: Marxist Postcard’.
02 – 30 Nov 2010
Jane Newbery Gallery
33 Dulwich Village
London SE21
Mon to Sat from 9.30 – 5.30 pm
Sun 11 – 4 pm
Afternoon viewing Sun 28 Nov 1 - 4 pm
Admission free