ELLE WICKENS

Skin after Successive Skin is born of a story of feminine transformation, rebirth and embodiment; a story that led the artist to imagine how the felt language of the body can be recorded through material, how sensation can paint, and how painting itself speaks of, from and to the body.

In this exhibition, Wickens creates an environment that echoes her own sensory tones, a space where interpretation is embodied, co-produced, and where multiple possibilities occur at once. Here, painting and installation are modes of communicating body to body. Through a considered material approach, painting becomes a layered sensorial language that Wickens employs to both process and communicate her being to the world.

Skin After Successive Skin explores the transference between artwork and audience; where the experience of an image or material can converge or depart from that of another, and where both artist and audience can explore their sensory experiences of the world together.