Digital pigment print on Somerset Photo Satin 300gsm paper.
29.7 x 42 cm, each
Edition of 22 + 4 APs, each edition
Unframed
This pair of editions dread of the grey arm (orgy) & (beheading), 2020 were produced to accompany the exhibition The Near Room, 2020 by artist Sophie Cundale, starring Penny Goring as the Queen.
Sophie Cundale and Penny Goring exchanged long emails, scanned drawings and texts between March – May 2020, when the artists were physically separated and working in isolation. The resulting drawings feature Amelia (a recurring presence in Penny’s work) with an order of knights drawn by Sophie, together they fantasise in a sterile realm.
BIOGRAPHIES
Sophie Cundale (b. 1987) is an artist living and working in London. Previous work has been commissioned by Serpentine Galleries and the South London Gallery; screened at Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Spike Island, Bristol, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand, Catalyst Arts, AMINI festival, Belfast, VCD festival, Beijing and Innsbruck Biennale, Austria; and hosted on vdrome.org. The Near Room at the South London Gallery is her first major solo exhibition, and travels in October 2020 to Bonington Gallery, Nottingham.
Penny Goring (b. 1962) lives and works in London and graduated in 1994 from Kingston School of Art in London with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Painting). Goring makes drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, and poems that access recurring personal trauma visions, and by layering these with grief, anxiety, imagination and rage, the subsequent invented mythologies become explorations of the contemporary state of emergency – where violence is commonplace, structural, intimate, where loss of freedoms is forgotten or keenly lamented, and there is no rescue or escape. Goring has exhibited at, amongst others, ICA, London; Tate, St. Ives; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; South London Gallery and Arcadia Missa, London.
