luey graves :the bell, the bell

Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present The Bell, The Bell, a solo show by London based artist Luey Graves opening in Cromwell Place (Gallery 12) on January 16. Accompanying the exhibition is a text by Brighid Lowe, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, London.

Luey Graves’ exhibition The Bell, The Bell features a collection of small, treasure-like paintings on panels. Exhibited alongside each other, the paintings manifest as a collective vision or narrative that nets these singular works together. Somehow, I keep returning to the idea of a devotional, religious painting that acts as a shrine, or a precious image encountered as one goes about the daily rituals of domestic life – but then I try to push this thought away, anxious about ascribing any sort of religious connotations to the paintings.