From the Inside Out is a group exhibition of female artists who utilise expanded forms of drawing to navigate a passage from personal experience to the outside world. Featuring new works by all four artists, the exhibition explores the capacity of drawing to convey the complexity and diversity of female experience.
These artists utilise the immediacy and directness of the drawn line to document experience, lived or imagined, giving form to memories and private thoughts. Taking inspiration from literature, popular culture and folklore, the artists use drawing to tell stories about age, sexuality, gender and politics. The works incorporate assemblage and collage, testing the boundaries of drawing as it moves into three dimensions. Traditional craft techniques, such as embroidery and quilting, are employed as a conceptual strategy with which to explore the construction of female identity. Exploring states of being, both interior and exterior, the artists tell stories that are as personal as they are universal.
Telling stories of the invisible and inaudible, Nilbar Güreş places everyday life realities in theatrical settings. Her works discuss ideas of gender, sexuality, race, class and the systems that sustain oppression and control. Employing a diverse range of media such as drawing, embroidery and appliqué, her works are imbued with a poetic and humorous inventiveness as well as a critical and political underside.
Working across media and scale, Marie Jacotey is inspired by social interactions and the stories of friends, strangers, literature and popular culture. She portrays these contemporary relationships and conversations in drawings interspersed with text in a comic-strip form, drawing functioning as a means to tell highly personal and self-reflective stories.
Also drawing on pop cultural, literary and autobiographical references, Athena Papadopoulos uses a wide range of materials (including cosmetic products and animal matter) and in her structural and collage works. Combining these with found text and image, she weaves herself as subject into a narrative thread that explores issues around contemporary gender politics and social relationships.
Emma Talbot's work explores an interior psychological space. Using a highly stylised figure motif to describe the self, she articulates internal personal narratives as visual thoughts of her own experience, her memories and psychological projections. Her drawings, made in watercolour, pencil and ink on paper or silk, often incorporate her own writing and other sources that describe her sense of the world.
Emma Talbot (b. 1969, Worcestershire) lives and works in London. Studied at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design; and the Royal College of Art. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal College of Art. Select solo exhibitions include 21st Century Sleepwalk, Caustic Coastal, Salford (2018); Woman-Snake-Bird, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam (2018); Emma Talbot, Nicolas Krupp Galerie, Basel (2018); Open Thoughts, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2018); Stained With Marks of Love, Arcadia Missa, New York (2017); CONDO, Arcadia Missa, London (2017); Time After Time, Petra Rinck Galerie, Dusseldorf (2016); and Unravel These Knots, The Freud Museum, London (2016). Select group exhibitions include Do You Keep Thinking There Must Be Another Way?, Mimosa House, London (2019); From The Inside Out, Drawing Room, London (2018); Virginia Woolf, Tate St Ives, St Ives and touring (2018); and Journeys With The Waste Land, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2018). Her work is held in public and private collections including The David Roberts Collection, London; Permanent Collection AGWA Perth, Perth; and Daniel and Florence Guerlain Collection, Paris.
Athena Papadopoulos (b. 1988, Toronto) lives and works in London. Studied BFA Contemporary Art Theory and Visual Art at University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2006-2011) and MFA, Fine Art Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London (2011-2013). Select solo exhibitions include Wolf Whistles, Shoot the Lobster, New York (2016); Zabludowicz Invites: Athena Papadopoulos, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2015); Honeymoon in Pickle Paradise, The Landmark Hotel, London (2014); and OUT COLD, OTHER Projects, Berlin (2014). Select group exhibitions include Streams of Warm Impermanence, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2016); Wild Style, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany (2016); Bloody Life, Herald St., London (2016); From Transhuman to South Perspectives, ROWING, London (2016); Dear Luxembourg, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg (2015); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London (2014-2015); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, World Museum, Liverpool (2014); AWAY, Sunset Terrace, Vancouver (2014); Push and Paint, Touch and Display, Vitrine Gallery, London (2013-2014); Goldsmiths MFA Graduation Exhibition, The Pool, London (2013); LumpSum, in collaboration with Derrick Jefferies, the invisible line, London (2012); and HEADING, in collaboration with Justin Worhaug Frederick, L/D's Project Space, Vancouver (2011).
Marie Jacotey (born 1988, Paris) lives and works in London. Graduated with an MA Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London (2013). Select solo exhibitions include Goodbye Darkness, Ballon Rouge, Paris (2018); and Morning Defeats, Hannah Barry Gallery, London (2017). Select group exhibitions include Architectural Ethnography, Japan Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2018); Watery, fluid, Cloud cuckoo land, London (2018); You see me like a UFO, Marcelle Joseph Project, Ascot (2017); and Assemble: How We Build, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna (2017).
Nilbar Güreş (born 1977, Istanbul) lives and works in Istanbul and Vienna. Studied Fine Art at Marmara University, Istanbul (2000) and Fine Art at Malerei und Grafik, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (2002). Select solo exhibitions include OVERHEAD, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (2018); Jumping Bed and Female Lovers, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin (2018); Heartache of a Stone, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (2017); and Open Phone Booth, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel (2016). Select group exhibitions include From the Inside Out, Drawing Room, London (2018).
