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5 – 14 September 2019
The Eagle Gallery is delighted present Domestic Creatures by Samantha Cary, in her first solo exhibition since 2014.
Cary’s recent paintings and woodcut prints are informed by daily and nocturnal wanderings in the suburban neighbourhood in which she lives. The glowing rectangles of windows at dusk, the grids of garden gates, horizontal blinds that frame and obscure what is glimpsed within. The domestic as a verb: containing, hiding, taming, protecting, concealing … .
As the artist notes: “Human beings are largely absent but the images are redolent with the sense of human presence. Ornamental plants and well-kept hedges tell of a longing for the exotic and hard work in the garden on the weekend. Alongside the unseen human – neighbourhood cats, dogs, birds, the sky and the moon – conjure up a sense of something entirely more savage, kept just at bay. There are forces at play. The domestic has its dark side.”
Cary’s recent work has been exhibited in group exhibitions including Towards Night, Towner Eastbourne (2019), the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2016–2019) and Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London.
Samantha Cary Domestic Creatures List of Works
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Dark Side 2019, oil on linen, 120 x 140cm
Fatherly Love 2019, oil on linen, 19 x 25cm
Through the gate, oil on linen, 19 x 25cm, 2019
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