Ludicrous Alchemy
16th - 25th June 2023
Ludicrous Alchemy A lustful exhibition of fever-dream work from Flora Bradwell and Jazmin Donaldson PV: Thu 15 June 6-9 pm
Open: 16-25 June, Wed-Sun, 12-6 pm
Lewisham Art House 140 Lewisham Way London SE14 6PD
Ludicrous Alchemy brings together artists Flora Bradwell and Jazmin Donaldson for a salacious two-hander exhibition. Animal hybrids cavort on acid green lawns, tiled floors become enormous knickers, swimming behind Victorian archways. Each artist's work is deeply rooted in dream worlds of their own making with a hallucinatory narrative quality. The surreal visual stories exposed by Bradwell and Donaldson in their high octane paintings are charged with symbolism and humour. Beneath the highly pigmented surfacelies a desire to subvert patriarchal norms and pick through multiplicities of meaning. Bradwell’s work has a compulsion towards the carnivalesque, a vibrant, trashy aesthetic the desire to playfully rub the fantastical against the everyday. Compositions of offrescoes, cult manifestoes and nursery rhymes are squeezed through a generously grotesque filter to create dimly recognisable imagined worlds. Donaldson is inspired by old fairy tales and myths, where she reuses already known motifs in order to tell contemporary stories and concerns. Through different imagery, she examines themes of identity and perception while playing with the absurd. She is specifically interested in what femininity can mean and the subjectivity of the female psyche. Ludicrous Alchemy nods towards the strange architecture that houses each artist's stories and invites the viewer to immerse themselves in this playful multi-sensory exhibition. We can't wait to invite you into our rollicking dream-scape.Contactwww.florabradwell.com | @florabradwellart | flora@florabradwell.comwww.jazmindonaldson.com | @jazmindonaldson_art | yasdonaldson@gmail.com