Things that make you want to stay
Galina Munroe
September 26 - October 11, 2022
Timbre Primevère, 2022
Oil paint, enamel paint and collage on canvas
63 x 55 1/8 in (160 x 140 cm)
COUNTY is pleased to present Things that make you want to stay, a solo exhibition featuring new works by Galina Munroe.
In Things that make you want to stay; Munroe’s flowers are placed in wonderful prismatic pots that thread alternating colors which echo a sense of rhythm and provide each work with a gravital foundation. Monroe creates a visual language honed in her native English countryside, where colorful patterns and blooms inform her overall aesthetic. With bits of collage accompanied by gloss and oil paint, she produces joyful floral arrangements, potted plants, and still lifes. The different aspects of her process: layering, sewing, and cutting materials, create an intricate tactility of surface. Her compositions with tilting and leaning plants are organic and free but still contained and held within a grid, giving each painting a fresh, almost dashed-off, but structured, feel. By embracing her native surroundings she elevates and shares, with the viewer, the consistent delights of the everyday.
Galina Munroe, British-French artist, (b. 1993), is based in Norfolk (United Kingdom), she received her undergraduate degree from the European Academy of Art in Brittany, and her graduate degree from Central Saint Martins in London. Recent exhibitions include Tending to the Tender, PIERMARQ* (Sydney, Australia, 2022), Brick Gallery (Cophenhagen, Denmark, 2021), Origin at Delphian Gallery (London United Kingdom, 2021), PUZZLE at Roman Sviridov (Brugherio Italy (IT), 2021), TWENTYFOUR II at Bricks Gallery (Copenhagen Denmark, 2020), To Emerge in a Different Place at PIERMARQ* (Sydney, Australia (AU), 2020). NBB gallery, (Berlin, Germany, 2020). Selected fairs: Palma Art Fair, Fran Reus Gallery, Palma, Spain, 2021, Twentyfour, Bricks Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019. Education: MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London, UK, 2014-2016. BA Fine Art, Beaux Arts, Ecole européenne supérieure d'art de Bretagne, France.
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