Jessica Rankin

The artist’s first solo exhibition in London since 2012 features recent paintings characterised by lyrical strokes of paint and intricately embroidered passages of poetry, as well as new works on paper.

Marking a significant shift in Rankin’s practice, this body of work grew and developed in the aftermath of the 2016 US election. A period of particular personal struggle for the artist, it focuses on ideas of desire, joy, intimacy and tenderness and how, in an age of political and social turmoil, these states can forge a space for resistance.