Ludicrous Alchemy

16th - 25th June 2023Ludicrous AlchemyA lustful exhibition of fever-dream work fromFlora Bradwell and Jazmin DonaldsonPV: Thu 15 June 6-9pmOpen: 16-25 June, Wed-Sun, 12-6pmLewisham Art House140 Lewisham WayLondon SE14 6PDLudicrous Alchemy brings together artists Flora Bradwell and Jazmin Donaldson for asalacious two hander exhibition. Animal hybrids cavort on acid green lawns, tiled floorsbecome enormous knickers swimming behind Victorian archways. Each artists' work isdeeply 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 octanepaintings 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 aestheticand the desire to playfully rub the fantastical against the everyday. Compositions offrescoes, cult manifestoes and nursery rhymes are squeezed through a generouslygrotesque filter to create dimly recognizable imagined worlds.Donaldson is inspired by old fairy tales and myths where she re-uses already known motifsin order to tell contemporary stories and concerns. Through different imagery sheexamines themes of identity and perception while playing with the absurd. She isspecifically interested in what femininity can mean and the subjectivity of the femalepsyche.Ludicrous Alchemy nods towards the strange architecture that houses each artists' storiesand invites the viewer to immerse them self in this playful multi sensory exhibition. Wecan't wait to invite you into our rollicking dream-scape.Contactwww.florabradwell.com | @florabradwellart | flora@florabradwell.comwww.jazmindonaldson.com | @jazmindonaldson_art | yasdonaldson@gmail.com