LISA IVORY
Lisa Ivory’s landscapes are commonly occupied by a Wildman, who occasionally interacts with a female human figure. There is a Rake’s Progress of sorts, with a skeletal Death figure interrupting the discourse between these characters. The Beast attempts sympathetic magic by scrawling images into a landscape. These exchanges occur in a shadowland—a liminal space of a half-forgotten landscape that exists simultaneously as rural, urban and wasteland, populated with anomalies, chimeras and spectres.
Ivory’s landscapes are archaic in tone and her archetypal subjects present a paradoxical discourse which includes the feral and tamed; the worshipped and abandoned; the empowered and the subjugated.
Lisa Ivory
Fortune Cookies, 2023
oil on cradled panel
7 3/4 x 6 in
20 x 15 cm
Lisa Ivory
Chalk Gods, 2023
oil on cradled panel
9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in
25 x 25 cm
Lisa Ivory
Ragman, 2023
oil on cradled panel
7 x 5 in
18 x 13 cm
Lisa Ivory
Ruffians, 2023
oil on cradled panel
7 x 5 in
18 x 13 cm
Lisa Ivory
Learning More and More About Less and Less, 2023
oil on cradled panel
7 3/4 x 6 in
20 x 15 cm
Lisa Ivory
Unreliable Narrator, 2023
oil on Arches paper
12 1/4 x 9 in
31 x 23 cm
Lisa Ivory
Old Fangs, 2023
oil on cradled panel
7 3/4 x 6 in
20 x 15 cm
Lisa Ivory
Ascension, 2023
oil on Arches paper
12 1/4 x 9 in
31 x 23 cm
EXHIBITIONS
LISA IVORY
Heavy Soul
Small Works by Contemporary Artists
FEBRUARY 15 - MARCH 20, 2024
PAINT HEAVY
MAY 18 - JUNE 21, 2023
SLIGHT OF HAND 2023
Kim Dorland, Joseba Eskubi, Lisa Ivory
NOVEMBER 1 - DECEMBER 22, 2023
LISA IVORY
born 1966, London, UK
lives and works in London, UK
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Lisa Ivory studied painting at Central Saint Martins School of Art, London, earning her BA in Fine Art, with honors, in 1988. Her paintings have been featured in recent exhibitions at Sim Smith, London; Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York; and Charlie Smith London at the London Art Fair.
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Mepaintsme spoke with the artist to discuss her process and how the uncertain evolution of a painting can give birth to meaning.
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EDUCATION
Foundation Course, Saint Martins School of Art, London
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Fine Art, Painting, Saint Martins School of Art, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Beasts Beguiled, Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Cornwall
2020 Savage Gardens, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, New York
2017 Vice, Malice, Lust and Cunning, Lubomirov-Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2015 Five Paintings at The Three Crowns, London
1989 Lisa Ivory, Salisbury Arts Centre, 1989, Salisbury
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2024 Charlie Smith London at London Art Fair, London
2023 Sugarcube III, Lido Stores, Margate
2023 Looking Like Fire, Sim Smith, London
2023 Neo-Gothic, OHSH Projects, London
2023 Beyond the Gaze-Reclaiming The Landscape, curated by Zavier Ellis, Saatchi Gallery, London
2023 A Generous Space 3, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK
2023 Paint Heavy, three-person show, MEPAINTSME, online
2023 Un/Related, three-person show, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
2022 Sugarcube II, Lido Stores, Margate, UK
2022 Running With Wolves II, 35 Blumen, Germany
2022 Dark Night Of The Soul, curated by Samuele Visentin at One Room Gallery, London
2022 These Times, Making Space Gallery, London
2022 Post Totem, OHSH Projects, London
2022 Project Papyrophilia, Charlie Smith London at London Art Fair, London
2021 A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK
2021 CosMoscow Art Fair, Fragment Gallery, Moscow
2021 Project Papyrophilia, Charlie Smith London, London
2021 Safe word, two-person show, Fragment Gallery, Moscow
2020 Every Day, Terrace Gallery, London
2018 Mythos, Charlie Smith London, London
2017 National Original Print Exhibition, London
2017 Antennae, Platform Projects, Athens
2016 National Original Print Exhibition, London
2016 Sixty, Art-Athina Platform Projects, Athens
2016 Hundreds and Thousands, Lubomirov-Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2015 The British Connection, Pori Art Museum, Finland
2015 Limited Editions, Lubomirov-Easton, London
2014 Bad Behaviour, Brixton East Gallery, London
2014 Neo:Print Prize, neo:gallery, Bolton, UK
2014 The Whole Thing’s Coming Out of the Dark, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2013 Void Open, Void Gallery, London
2013 Untitled Male Id, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2012 Temple of the Occult, Norman Rea Gallery, York
2011 Big Deal Sexy100, Wall to Wall, London, curated by STIMULUS LTD
2011 Scope Basel Presented by Guillochon Gallery London, Basel
2011 The Great Alonso, Primo Alonso, London
2010 Freaks, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2005 Wish You Were Here 3, A.I.R Gallery, New York
COLLECTIONSUniversity of the Arts, London
St George’s Medical School Library, London
Private collections internationally