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Amy Beager
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Amy Beager
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Group exhibitions include Spirit of Adventure: the Ingram Collection, West Horsley Place, Surry, UK (2023); Enter Art Fair, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023), Eye of the Collector, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2023); Untitled Miami Beach, Art Fair, USA (2022); 2022 Ingram Prize Shortlists, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK (2022); Power of Femininity, Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland (2022); Arcadia, Curated by OffShoot Arts X A Space for Art, Home House private members club, London, UK (2022); 2022 London Art Fair, Art Projects, Solo Booth with Wilder Gallery, London, UK (2022); In Momentum, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); A Call Across Rooms, Liliya Gallery, London (2021); Femme-Ate, Soho Revue, London (2021); Summer Auction, Hoxton Gallery, London (2021); Antisocial Isolation, Saatchi Gallery, London (2021); The Top 100, The Department Store, London (2021); It’s All Relative, Four You Gallery X Artistellar, London (2021); Now | Futures, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London (2021); Mnemysone, Purslane Arts, UK (2021); Works on Paper 3, Blue Shop Cottage, London (2021); Fragmented Intimacy, Grove Collective, London (2021); The Everlasting Nude, The Curators, London (2021); Tilted, Wilder Gallery, London (2021); Original Paper, Wilder Gallery, London (2020); 2020 Winners Exhibition, Delphian Gallery, London (2020); With Love, Paint Talks, London (2020); Painting Persists, Offshoot Arts, online (2020); Works on Paper, Blue Shop Cottage, London (2020); The Sinister Figures, BUNKER/ BuuBuu Studio, online (2020); Parallax Art Fair, Kensington Town Hall, London (2020)
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Other, larger-scale paintings depict instances of human love and sorrow. After Etty, an interpretation of a William Etty painting based on the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, envisions the tragic reunion of two lovers. As the story goes, Leander swims each night across the ocean to meet with Hero who lives in a tower on an opposite island; however, one night he drowns in a storm. In Beager’s painting, his body is still half submerged in the water, while Hero appears to have thrown herself down the rocks in grief, her arms cradling his head.In Burrow and Sky, we again encounter two figures locked in a romantic embrace, but rather than being exposed to the elements they are cocooned in a cave, their limbs entwining not just with one another’s but with the vines and leaves that grow up around them. Meanwhile, in Immortality Tree a figure’s body has melded into a tree, their limbs inextricable from its trunk and roots. In a sense, both of these works are a depiction of the life cycle in which we are sustained by and eventually returned to the earth.For Beager, paradise is equated with this symbiotic relationship to nature, but also with a kind of self sacrificial desire, in which the individual is subsumed by their love for another. This love, as depicted in Beager’s works, has the ability to transcend boundaries of place, time and even species. It is dangerous, all encompassing and startlingly beautiful.
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Amy Beager: Paradise
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