
White Cube Mason’s Yard presents an exhibition of new works by Manchester-based artist Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London). The presentation follows the artist’s recent touring exhibition, ‘A Song of Ascents’, which opened at The Hepworth Wakefield, UK, in 2024, and her major outdoor commission for St Mary-le-Strand Church, London, last year.
Probing the tension between representation and materiality, and between figuration and abstraction, Giovanelli draws on contemporary and historical imagery, as well as sacred and profane motifs, to question the act of looking. Her paintings examine the physical qualities of paint, revealing its capacity to hold, transmit and complicate meaning.

Louise Giovanelli is a British contemporary artist acclaimed for her luminous, enigmatic paintings that fuse art historical references with motifs from popular culture, exploring the mysterious thresholds between the everyday and the transcendent. Her critically lauded institutional solo exhibitions, including A Song of Ascents at The Hepworth Wakefield, have established her as a leading voice in contemporary painting.




An international art powerhouse, White Cube was established in 1993 in London by art dealer Jay Jopling. In its space on Duke Street, it served as the early exhibition venue for many now internationally acclaimed British artists, including Tracey Emin, Gilbert & George, Rachel Kneebone and Antony Gormley, who still show with the gallery today.

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