LISA IVORY
Soundless Sound, 2024
oil on panel
7 x 9 in
17.8 x 22.9 cm
Soundless Sound, 2024
oil on panel
7 x 9 in
17.8 x 22.9 cm
Soundless Sound, 2024
oil on panel
7 x 9 in
17.8 x 22.9 cm
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 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.